In the next couple of weeks we will be launching an online church school on this blog. It will give you the opportunity to explore a vital faith question weekly and participate through responding in the comment section. We hope that the use of this will enhance your spiritual life and deepen your relationship with our creator.
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January 12, 2010 at 11:12 am
Hi Brian,
online Bible study sounds interesting…pls keep me posted!
Thanks!
Deb
January 12, 2010 at 8:27 pm
I will. Beth and I are putting it together. It should be fun.
January 18, 2010 at 12:49 pm
Brian — would you be open at all to using YouTube for the video format? If so, I could pipe the videos into Second Life, and maybe we could build a church school class at 1PCSL around it. Let me know what you think.
January 18, 2010 at 12:59 pm
That would be great. I’ve had trouble uploading to youtube, but Carol promised to help me work through the problems.
January 24, 2010 at 9:47 am
My suggestion based on “…help me work through the problems.” is to quit this fancy blogsite with super motion graphics, and establish a text only site as simple as chat or email. Getting sucked in to the whale of digital competition will leave you to preach to the Ninevites about the errors of not having heard or read the Sermon on the Mount. God dwelleth not in temples made by human hands
19:019:007 The law of the LORD is perfect, converting the soul: the
testimony of the LORD is sure, making wise the simple.
19:116:006 The LORD preserveth the simple: I was brought low, and he
helped me.
19:119:130 The entrance of thy words giveth light; it giveth
understanding unto the simple.
20:001:001 The proverbs of Solomon the son of David, king of Israel;
20:001:002 To know wisdom and instruction; to perceive the words of
understanding;
20:001:003 To receive the instruction of wisdom, justice, and judgment,
and equity;
20:001:004 To give subtilty to the simple, to the young man knowledge and
discretion.
20:001:022 How long, ye simple ones, will ye love simplicity? and the
scorners delight in their scorning, and fools hate knowledge?
20:001:032 For the turning away of the simple shall slay them, and the
prosperity of fools shall destroy them.
20:007:005 That they may keep thee from the strange woman, from the
stranger which flattereth with her words.
20:007:006 For at the window of my house I looked through my casement,
20:007:007 And beheld among the simple ones, I discerned among the
youths, a young man void of understanding,
20:007:008 Passing through the street near her corner; and he went the
way to her house,
20:007:009 In the twilight, in the evening, in the black and dark night:
20:007:010 And, behold, there met him a woman with the attire of an
harlot, and subtil of heart
20:008:005 O ye simple, understand wisdom: and, ye fools, be ye of an
understanding heart.
20:009:001 Wisdom hath builded her house, she hath hewn out her seven
pillars:
20:009:002 She hath killed her beasts; she hath mingled her wine; she
hath also furnished her table.
20:009:003 She hath sent forth her maidens: she crieth upon the highest
places of the city,
20:009:004 Whoso is simple, let him turn in hither: as for him that
wanteth understanding, she saith to him,
20:009:005 Come, eat of my bread, and drink of the wine which I have
mingled.
20:009:006 Forsake the foolish, and live; and go in the way of
understanding.
20:009:007 He that reproveth a scorner getteth to himself shame: and he
that rebuketh a wicked man getteth himself a blot.
Blot not blog, for virtue remains a simple attribute.
January 25, 2010 at 12:02 pm
Well, it seems like for a format you don’t like you certainly have a lot to say. I don’t agree and will keep with this blog, but value you your disagreement.
October 18, 2010 at 9:42 pm
It wasn’t meant to be offensive, but rather indicative of the rise of unbelief in that the quantity and quality of faith (as substance and evidence) becomes more complex and obscure. What we experience as faith is a personal walk with God in Christ. The same Christ that exclaimed, “40:015:016 And Jesus said, Are ye also yet without understanding?
40:015:017 Do not ye yet understand, that whatsoever entereth in at the
mouth goeth into the belly, and is cast out into the draught?
40:015:018 But those things which proceed out of the mouth come forth
from the heart; and they defile the man.
40:015:019 For out of the heart proceed evil thoughts, murders,
adulteries, fornications, thefts, false witness, blasphemies:
40:015:020 These are the things which defile a man: but to eat with
unwashen hands defileth not a man.
The Biblical use of defilement is not to become unclean. It is to be committed to a way as in the definition of a military defile. One follows the other in person of flesh, rather than by principle of reason.
The other confused definition I would add is the word, “glory”, which also means “reputation”.