tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-76930362334860954442024-02-19T02:35:14.383-08:00First Things"Therefore, I will always be ready to remind you of these things, even though you already know them, and have been established in the truth which is present with you."
- 2 Peter 1:12Unknownnoreply@blogger.comBlogger234125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-57858352604241787502012-11-15T10:55:00.000-08:002012-11-15T10:55:30.880-08:00When You're In Conflict, It’s Always Your Move
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Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-53737607646005620372012-11-02T17:16:00.001-07:002012-11-02T17:16:03.497-07:00You Know You’re Becoming a Religious Christian When… | Pastor Jake
There is both a positive and neutral way to use the word “religion” or “religious.” But it’s certainly no secret that the term can also represent that which obscures truth, ruins people, and grieves God; and all this done "in the name of Jesus." As such we have to fight against it in our hearts, homes, churches, and culture. But before we take on the world, let’s Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-22819491430733270782012-11-02T16:40:00.002-07:002012-11-02T16:40:22.731-07:005 Reasons Why You Might Not Want to Get Well | Pastor Jake
5 Reasons Why You Might Not Want to Get Well
In John 5 Jesus is walking through Jerusalem’s skid row, a placed filled with men and women crippled physically and emotionally. Jesus was drawn to one particular man who had been an invalid for 38 years. Jesus asked, “Do you want to be healed” (vs.6)? This seems like a profoundly silly question. Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-83789070716106219642012-03-25T13:00:00.002-07:002012-03-25T13:07:50.713-07:00The Lone-Commandment: Are Christians Inconsistent in not Observing the Sabbath?<!--[if gte mso 9]> 0 0 1 1310 7471 Oasis Church 62 17 8764 14.0 96 800x600 <![endif]--> <!--[if gte mso 9]> Normal 0 false false false EN-US JA X-NONE <![endif]--><!--[if gte mso 9]>Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-63474538478476067872011-05-19T11:03:00.000-07:002011-08-24T20:05:56.174-07:00God Loves You Enough to Hurt You | Pastor Jake Magee
“6 "Therefore, behold, I will hedge up her way with thorns, And I will build a wall against her so that she cannot find her paths. 7 "She will pursue her lovers, but she will not overtake them; And she will seek them, but will not find them. Then she will say, 'I will go back to my first husband, For it was better for me then than now’” (Hosea 2:6-7)
God loves you enough to hurt you. That Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-63188980026513750802011-05-02T14:02:00.000-07:002011-05-09T07:54:33.404-07:00Bell and Six Tragic Truths About Hell | Jake MageeRecently hell has become...well…a hot topic. With the release of Rob Bell’s book Love Wins in which he affirms (in his own elusive way) that no one will stay in hell forever, there has been a much-deserved response and backlash to Bell and others who appear to be quite comfortable living on the fringe of error. I can't help but to think of the countless unmarried Christian couples who attempt to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-21203698707033404272010-11-16T15:11:00.000-08:002010-11-16T15:21:16.610-08:00Amazing Grace for the Jacked UpRead the Bible, and you'll conclude that the best of God's people are jacked up. Any cursory survey of the lives of God’s messengers and ministers confirms that the answer to the rhetorical question “who is sufficient for these things,” is in fact “no one” (2 Cor.2:16). We find multiple blights and blemishes in the very people presented as paradigms.Abraham, the father of faith, has his bouts Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-31733460734619673422010-11-09T13:28:00.000-08:002010-11-09T13:46:57.796-08:00Slain In The Spirit"And as he heard these words, Ananias fell down and breathed his last" (Acts 5:5)Ananias and his wife were Slain In the Spirit. No..really, they were. However, this "Pentecostal" phenomena probably won't gain much popularity among our many of our chaos-matic brothers and sisters today. There was no barking, laughing, gyrating, or rolling. Just falling to the ground...dead. Ananias and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-79012723265329185762010-11-08T05:56:00.000-08:002012-11-16T14:29:19.307-08:00Hungry Grace
When most people suspected Saul of Tarsus' conversion as being a trick to roast Christians, Barnabas saw true signs of the grace of God underneath the unchanged exterior of a notorious enemy of Jesus. Barnabas became Saul's advocate when very few would (Acts 9:26-28).
When Paul would later look upon John Mark as spineless and useless for the ministry due to his desertion of them at Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-75645800727833613612010-10-28T14:57:00.001-07:002012-03-25T13:22:25.673-07:00How To Read the Bible (without becoming a cult-leader, heretic...)Just finished a booklet on how to read the Bible entitled, How To Read The Bible (Without becoming a cult-leader, heretic, snake- handler, Pharisee, fundamentalist, etc...)Check it out - HEREUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-9181608094441272952010-10-15T12:41:00.000-07:002010-11-08T06:52:04.280-08:00Blame it on the Brain: A Review<!--StartFragment--> Blame it on the Brain: A Review by Jake Magee It seems that with each advance of the physical sciences, there is a corresponding challenge to find its integration to Biblical Theology. There are at least three responses that a Christian might make to various discoveries of the physical sciences: (1) Questioning whether there is really an “advance” due to Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-70372218420328488542010-10-11T14:20:00.000-07:002010-11-08T06:52:04.281-08:00Roman Catholic Responses (lots of peeps chiming in)I found a thread of folks discussing the Surprised by What? article that I wrote which is hosted at Monergism.com (HERE) and Christian Publication Resource Foundation (HERE). Nearly 400 replies and 3,000 + views. - HEREUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-59644016607629687712010-10-08T21:46:00.000-07:002010-10-08T22:08:11.445-07:00Roman Catholic Responses (Joe)A Roman Catholic (Joe) has offered a critique of an article I've written and is hosted at www.monergism.com entitled Surprised by What? A Defense of Sola Scriptura - HERE .Joe:Dear Mr. Magee,I recently read an article defending sola scriptura at:http://www.monergism.com/thethreshold/articles/onsite/SurprisedbyWhat.htmlI found the article very interesting and well presented. If you are not the Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-58287954904657375012010-10-08T20:53:00.000-07:002010-10-08T22:05:08.504-07:00Roman Catholic Responses (Randy)A Roman Catholic (Randy) has offered a critique (HERE) of an article I've written and is hosted at www.monergism.com entitled Surprised by What? A Defense of Sola Scriptura - HERE . Randy:Jake Magee responds to some conversion stories in Surprised by Truth. He is actually pretty fair and rational. He takes seriously the fact that well-formed, intelligent protestants came to believe Sola ScripturaUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-51536532683823233352010-09-20T16:24:00.000-07:002010-10-08T22:09:04.172-07:00Marriage Bootcamp (Audio)Marriage Basics - HereMarriage Problems - HereMarriage Solutions - HereMarriage Tips - HereUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-14896169494188541222010-08-27T10:08:00.000-07:002010-10-08T21:41:09.245-07:00Psychologizing Sin & Its Impact on Biblical Counseling<!--StartFragment--> by JMIt is certain that pastors must offer techniques to aid those they serve. Abstract principles without specific application is akin to giving people a destination without a vehicle; urging people “to be warmed and filled” without blankets and a food voucher. The question then becomes this: is there a kind of therapy unique to Biblical Counseling? It is clear enough Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-11408054690850930932010-07-05T18:05:00.000-07:002010-10-08T21:41:09.246-07:00The Danger of Social JusticeFrom Justin Taylor - SourceFrom a letter from Senior Tempter Screwtape to his nephew Wormwood, who is in training to tempt Christians:About the general connection between Christianity and politics, our position is more delicate.Certainly we do not want men to allow their Christianity to flow over into their political life, for the establishment of anything like a really just society would be a Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-91398676026315270012010-06-29T14:28:00.000-07:002010-10-08T21:41:09.246-07:00Marriage Is...Some thoughts on God's Intention for Marriage from Genesis 1 & 2.Marriage is invented by God, not by society Without a design for marriage, there is no set definition for it. Unless God tells us what counts as marriage, culture may define what counts as marriage. The Bible teaches us that God designs and therefore defines this union (Gen 2:24). Marriage is monogamous, not polygamous Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-15425016610671900052010-06-18T16:50:00.000-07:002010-10-08T22:09:04.172-07:00A Crash Course on PrayerAudio - HEREUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-88234622778958486572010-05-30T07:37:00.000-07:002010-10-08T22:08:11.446-07:00How Do You Know When You've Been Called?How do you know when you've been called to be a pastor? Here are some of my thoughts on the topic - HEREUnknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-78013053242692184312010-03-30T13:27:00.001-07:002010-10-08T21:40:24.065-07:00When "Messianic Christianity" Becomes DangerousA few years ago, I was invited to sit in on a bible study that was pitched as a time to learn more about the Jewish roots of Christianity by a pastor from a Messianic Congregation. I love the topic and desired to put on the scuba gear and dive a little deeper. Having brought a few folks from the congregation that I served, we quickly learned that the gathering had the agenda of converting Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-195527615860823752010-03-08T14:39:00.000-08:002010-10-08T21:41:52.439-07:00A Brief Discussion of God’s Freewill and OursFriendHey Jake,If Adam was in a state of freewill, prior to the fall, due to having moral equipoise, as Pink puts it, to either choose good or evil, without bias, at what point do you think God's sovereignty affects Adam's will to choose evil? If Adam's will is truly free, it would seem that the same paradox is involved between Adam and God, as the one that exists now, between all humanity and Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-81024266627411455722010-01-27T20:25:00.000-08:002010-10-08T21:40:24.065-07:00A Brief and Candid Conversation About DoubtI have a good friend that has been seriously struggling with his faith lately (perhaps even losing it). Recently he posted an article entitled, "Empty: Some observations from Genesis," which contains some critical remarks on the narrative found in Genesis 3. With his gracious permission, I have included his post, as well as much of the candid conversation that we had over the matter. We hope Unknownnoreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-7693036233486095444.post-54119099529757173042010-01-12T08:22:00.000-08:002010-10-08T21:39:30.862-07:00Before You Judge Another, Ask Yourself..."Do not judge so that you will not be judged. 2 "For in the way you judge, you will be judged; and by your standard of measure, it will be measured to you." (Matthew 7:1-2) Contrary to how many interpret this passage, judgment isn't forbidden in Scripture, bad judgments are. “First take the log out of your own eye, then you will see clearly to take the speck out of your brothers” (Matt 7:5). AUnknownnoreply@blogger.com