- Hear wisdom: if you get kicked off a horse, get right back on. If he kicks you off again, get right back on again. If he kicks you off a third time, don’t give up horse-kind…just give up on that one. Let the reader understand.
- I’m grived by the interview I just saw on FNC. She was one of those terrible “God Hates You” people, that pickets at funerals and such. I wish I could’ve said something — that is not the message of Christ. His message is “Come to me, all of you who are weary and heavy laden, and I will give you rest.” His message is “Whoever comes to me, I shall not reject…I shall not ever lose…and I shall raise up at that last day — for this is the will of my Father.” His message is “they are his sheep, and no one shall ever pluck them from the Father’s hand.” His command is “bear one another’s burdens,” “weep with those who weep,” “bless those who despitefully curse you, and do all manner of evil against you,” “walk an extra mile when you’re commanded/required to walk only one,” “give your coat, too, when you’re sued for your shirt,” “when someone slaps you on the cheek, turn the other to them also.” For who makes us to differ one from another? God alone. Now, is God angry at sinners? Of course, he is good, holy, and just. And he’s the “justifier of the ungodly” who “did not spare his one and only Son,” “that we might have life, and have it more abundantly,” that we might “be with him where he is, to look upon his glory,” to enjoy him forever in that place where “pleasures are evermore” and where there is “fullness of Joy.” Is God the Father angry at sinners? Again, yes — but he’s also the God who appointed us a high priest to make full and substitutionary satisfaction for our sins. Did you get that? The Father appointed Christ to be a mediator–now, why would he do that? Because he’s ultimately an angry and vengeful God? Or because he’s ultimately (and immediately) a good and loving God as well as a holy and just God? I grieve over how many people saw that satanicly perverted image of Christianity displayed on the most popular news channel in the country. It’s wretched! Simply and fully wretched! That is not love–love is both content and delivery, truth and grace, message and medium and motive. She has more grossly misrepresented and more defiantly disobeyed the one she calls Lord than the worst criminal of recent headlines. Final word: “whoever loves is of God; whoever does not love is not of God.”
I report — you decide.
Two More Thoughts
October 4th, 2006 by Aron
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yep.
I would have said something to the woman being interviewed too. ‘Go sell crazy somewhere else ma’am. We’re all stocked up here!’
Jack Nicholson quote from I don’t know what movie.
Thank you for responding in this way, it is so necessary for us to clarify the perversion of Christ’s message that has infiltrated our culture.
By the way, that Nicholson movie was “As Good As it Gets.”
This’ll preach, man.
Sigh.
I heard about this too. It made me want to just weep. You should send this post to Fox and see it they post it on their website.