I don't think anyone can deny that this is inspirational. But where does it come from, the inspiration? Does it come directly from God, as Divine Inspiration? Have you ever felt Divine Inspiration?
Or did God only inspire the scriptures -- the Bible, and nothing else?
Actually the Prince of Peace has been Crying ever since our President and Dick Cheney lied us into a costful and unnecessary war. And now Haliburton, the company that Dick Cheney owns 80 million dollars of, has done it again. First they stole texpayer dollars; then they let their contractors get away with slaughtering iraqi civilians, then they fed our troops horrible food and overcharged taxpayers. How could it get any worse? How could the Bush administration's special company in Iraq -- Haliburton -- offend Our Lord any worse ?
The following is excerpted from a book by Alister McGrath. These concepts are pretty important and may be interesting to you:
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Seven Images of Salvation
I just wanted to let you guys know that this isn't the only Bible blog (or sset of blogs) out there. I have been reading some interesting one's lately, and I made a list of them in the lower right hand corner of the page.
Yesterday I blogged about Jake Follis, who has a nice little blogspot blog called 'Outside Camp, because he talked about 'Stopping'. If you take some time to stop doing things, the thinking goes, you can free your mind to pray and meditate. For those of you familiar with Tim Ferris and his low-information theory, this is exactly what Tim is getting towards, even though Tim's motivations is purportedly 'bizness', not spiritual.
I just discovered a great blog by a young man starting out his ministry in Indiana. Very thoughtful. In this latest post he talks about the benefits of prayer and meditation within the context of solitude:
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