Characteristics of an Ambassador of Christ Part 2: An ambassador is one who is sent for a purpose

Part 1

Last week we saw that the first characteristic of an ambassador for Christ is that he or she should knows God well.  Today we shall see that an ambassador is one who is sent for a purpose.

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Get it Free or Cheap: A Call to Prayer by J.C. Ryle

J.C. Ryle. A Call to Prayer.  Pensacola, FL: Chapel Library, July 2^nd, 2012. 49 pp.

I appreciate this short work on prayer by J.C. Ryle that exhorted Christians to pray.  Ryle delineates the reason why prayer is important and he goes so far as to say that an individual who doesn’t pray isn’t a Christian.  As uncomfortable as that thought is, Ryle’s certainly has a legitimate point that a Christian who is not communing with God is missing the whole point of why Christians are saved by God’s grace in the first place.  I think Ryle is also nuanced when he said that prayer in of itself does not save someone to go to heaven, but at the same time a non-praying person might be someone who does not understand God’s grace.

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Weekend Book Review: The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop

Steve Osborne. The Job: True Tales from the Life of a New York City Cop.  New York, NY: Doubleday, April 21^st, 2015. 253 pp.

I read this book in the summer of 2016.  A hot summer with a lot of heated rhetoric against the police.  Unfortunately the heat has appear in more ways than one.  I thought I read this book in an appropriate time.  This book put a human face to the thin blue line and it was more than I expected.  It was emotional.  As in the book brought out more than one emotions.  I literally laughed out loud at several points in the book and also got teary eye with certain section of the book too.

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May this J.C. Ryle’s Quote Stir You to Lovingly Pray for Others

How is your prayer life?  How is your prayers for others?

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Review: Faithfulness: No More Excuses by Lou Priolo

Lou Priolo. Faithfulness: No More Excuses.  Phillipsburg, NJ: Presbyterian and Reformed Publishing, June 30^th, 2016. 48 pp.

This is an excellent resource on Christian living using biblical principles and God centered motivation.  I realize the term “faithfulness” can be rather broad and my only real critique of this book is that it might have been better titled “Responsibilities” or something along that line so readers understand right away what the book is about.  I totally enjoyed this book and found it immensely practical and helpful.  Even for those who would say they are quite responsible would benefit from this book as the beginning of this work made clear that the more one grows in responsibilities, the more one sees one’s shortcoming and need for grace for improvement.  With such an introduction I was compelled to read this all the way through.

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Choosing Hats: Apologetics Round Table

The blog Choosing Hats has posted a lot of good materials on Presuppositional Apologetics.  They’ve slowed down recently but recently got together for a round table discussion.

Enjoy!

There blog is still worth going through especially with them dealing with difficult issues and philosophical aspect of Presuppositional Apologetics.  Check them out HERE.

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“Not Ashamed Conference” 2016 Audios

Here’s a conference this past Saturday called “Not Ashamed Conference.”  It cover three “S:” Salvation in Christ, Sharing Christ and Serving Christ.

These sermons are available on Sound Cloud (click below):

1. Salvation in Christ by Pastor Al Galvan
2. The Unashamed Slave by Pastor Z
3. Serving Christ by Pastor Ed

Enjoy!

 

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Bible Contradiction? How many men were possessed with demons at the country of the Gadarenes?

Source: Brick Bible at http://thebrickbible.com/02_nt/02_the_ministry_of_jesus/12_the_gerasene_demoniac/#image-0

Here’s another Bible contradiction that we’ll be looking at: “How many men were possessed with devils at the country of the Gadarenes?”

Here’s the answer the skeptic annotated Bible gave along with the Scriptures quoted from the NASB that allegedly demonstrate there’s a contradiction:

Only one man was possessed with devils.

They came to the other side of the sea, into the country of the Gerasenes. 2 When He got out of the boat, immediately a man from the tombs with an unclean spirit met Him, (Mark 5:1-2)

26 Then they sailed to the country of the Gerasenes, which is opposite Galilee. 27 And when He came out onto the land, He was met by a man from the city who was possessed with demons; and who had not put on any clothing for a long time, and was not living in a house, but in the tombs. (Luke 8:26-27)

Two men were possessed with devils.

When He came to the other side into the country of the Gadarenes, two men who were demon-possessed met Him as they were coming out of the tombs. They were so extremely violent that no one could pass by that way. (Matthew 8:28)

Let’s take a closer look at whether or not there is a contradiction:

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Characteristics of an Ambassador of Christ Part 1: An ambassador is one who knows God well

Establishing the need: Do you realized that if you are a Christian you are called by God to be an ambassador of Christ?  What does that mean and what does God require of you?

We will be looking at 2 Corinthians 5:20=

Therefore, we are ambassadors for Christ, as though God were making an appeal through us; we beg you on behalf of Christ, be reconciled to God. 

Purpose of Series: Over the next few weeks on Sunday we will see four characteristics of an ambassador of Christ are so that you will faithfully represent Christ to other.

Our first one for today: An ambassador is one who knows God well.

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Are Allah and the God of Christianity the Same? Nabeel Qureshi Answers

Looks like Nabeel Qureshi is coming out with a new book related to the topic of this video that responds to the question, “Are Allah and the God of Christianity the Same?”

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Weekend Reviews of Two Comics (Summer 2016)

Yesterday I posted on “Spurgeon on Preachers Reading Outside the Bible and Theology.”  One commentator, patrickhawthorne01, wrote “Does this mean I still get to read the comics?”  So its probably appropriate to have my weekly Friday evening book reviews of leisure reading to be on comics!

Jeph Loeb. Superman for All Seasons. New York, NY: DC Comics, September 25^th 2002. 206 pp.

5 out of 5

Funny as this may sound this is my first Superman comic that I read.  That’s largely due to the fact that as a kid I found Superman to be cheesy.  So when I give this book a rating of 5 out of 5 I hope readers would understand that I really thought this book was good.  It surpassed my expectations!  When the writer Jeph Loeb and the artist Tim Sale team up they are incredible and this is another example of great comic art and story just like their other work: Batman: The Long Halloween and Daredevil Legends, Vol. 1: Yellow.

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Presuppositional #Apologetics’ Links: Third Week of July 2016

Here are the links related to Presuppositonal Apologetics gathered from July 15th-21st, 2016.

1.) In your light do we see light

2.) Refuting Hinduism part 1

3.) Ten or twelve life-changing books #8: Van Til’s Introduction to Systematic Theology

4.) Pushing The Antithesis – Part 3 – Defining Worldviews

5.) Red Grace Media And A Short Lived Interview

6.) The Return of the Village Atheist

 

Missed the last round up?  Check out the re-blogged post from a friend OR that of Another REBLOG HERE

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Spurgeon on Preachers Reading Outside the Bible and Theology

I thought this paragraph in which Spurgeon commented on minsters reading outside the Bible was thoughtful:

Having given precedence to the inspired writings, neglect no field of knowledge. The presence of Jesus on the earth has sanctified the realms of nature, and what He has cleansed call not you common. All that your Father has made is yours, and you should learn from it. You may read a naturalist’s journal, or a traveller’s voyage, and find profit in it. Yes, and even an old herbal, or a manual of alchemy may, like Samson’s dead lion, yield you honey. There are pearls in oyster shells, and fruits on thorny boughs. The paths of true science, especially natural history and botany, drop fatness. Geology, so far as it is fact, and not fiction, is full of treasures.

History–wonderful are the visions which it makes to pass before you–is eminently instructive; indeed, every portion of God’s dominion in nature teems with precious teachings. Follow the trails of knowledge, according as you have the time, the opportunity, and the peculiar faculty; and do not hesitate to do so because of any apprehension that you will educate yourselves up to too high a point. When grace abounds, learning will not puff you up, or injure your simplicity in the gospel. Serve God with such education as you have, and thank Him for blowing through you if you are a ram’s horn, but if there be a possibility of your becoming a silver trumpet, choose it rather.

This is from Lectures to My Students, chapter 15.

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Red Grace Media And A Short Lived Interview

There’s a video that was loaded up by Red Grace Media a few days ago in which the host asked an atheist about atheism and the laws of logic:

Normally I don’t read the comment section of Youtube videos because of how much ignorance and trolls exists on there.  But there’s this one comment I want to briefly respond to:

‘How can you have logic and reason without God?’……..the obvious answer, ‘we have a brain that has evolved to be able to work things out logically and use reason’ [and we are not the only species that can do this by the way] So now lets ask this stupid question to an atheist and piss him off because it’s such a stupid question that you are sure to find at least one atheist that gets pissed at this stupid question…………. And then we can go ridicule atheism by making a YouTube video of it. Is religion really getting this desperate! 🙂

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If you’re a Hillary Supporter Complaining about #MelaniaTrump

At the outset let me be clear I am no fan of the Trumps.  Readers who have read our blog for a while knows this very well.

I tried to be not so political as much I can for 2016.  But I have this to say:

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