A little fun in the snow with Bailey!

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0sUL0KCIc48

Rick Warren: "we" should "take out" the Iranian president

 

Warren uses Romans 13 as his precedent.

 

I was uneasy about this as soon as I heard about it last week. I couldn’t get comfortable with this and couldn’t find the organized thoughts to make how I felt about this jell. Rick Davis to the rescue.

 

Rick Davis is an acquaintance who pastors Brock Baptist Church, Brock, Texas (update). Rick is running a series of posts organized around Advent. In today’s post, he addresses Warren and the aforementioned statement.

 

Rick said, “He is wrong religiously. Romans 13 sanctioned an all-powerful, non-Christian government that did evil in the eyes of God as a matter of routine. The Roman government was not going to last. The Kingdom of God was going to continue.”

 

Wow! That is what I was searching for, but he didn’t stop there.

 

“He is wrong as a matter of law. In a state of war, would we have hesitated to kill a Stalin, a Hitler or a Mussolini? The difference in those situations is apparent. We are not yet at war with Iran

He is wrong demographically. Will Iran soon run out of two-bit dictators who aggrandize themselves by America-hating?

 He is wrong geo-politically. As a policy, murder has its echoes. You can still hear them in Dealey Plaza.”

I commend Rick’s entire post to you.

http://aintsobad.typepad.com/aintsobad/2008/12/advent-in-an-age-of-uncertaintydecember-10-2008.html

 

 

 

Aintsobad Advent - Day 2

http://aintsobad.typepad.com/aintsobad/2008/12/advent-the-age-of-uncertainty.html

 

 

A really different Advent Calendar

Here is a link to the Boston Globe’s Hubble Space Telescope Advent Calendar

 

Unique does not really describe it. It certainly is starting off as a tour de force of God’s Creation!

 

You’ve gotta click through…

 

http://www.boston.com/bigpicture/2008/12/hubble_space_telescope_advent.html

 

 

Gary

 

 

Rick Davis begins Advent postings

Dr. Davis’ December 1 post excerpt:

 

The God of Scripture (Christian) is incapable of evil. God can neither do evil nor tempt man to do evil. God rejects temptation in all its forms. God is not capricious in thought or action. In short, God is not human, though God is indeed personal and real.

God is light and love; illumination and affection. The nature of God being eternally settled, God is able to act thoughtfully, to sacrifice fully, even to understand.

That is, God gets us. God knows, sees, hears, comprehends deeply. God loves anyway because it is in the nature of God to love.

Entire post at http://aintsobad.typepad.com/aintsobad/2008/12/advent-into-an-age-of-uncertainty.html

 

Gary