Three Points About Victoria Osteen Being Sued…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Christianity In Crisis, My Faith, Randomness, Web Clips
Their has been much news lately about the lawsuit filed against Victoria Osteen (Co-pastor of Houston’s Lakewood Church - one of the largest churches in America and wife of Joel Osteen) for assaulting a flight attendant on a 2005 Continental Airlines flight to Vail, Colorado.
While I have many opinions about Victoria Osteen and the Lakewood church, I will keep them to myself. I would however like to share some thoughts about the law suit and all the publicity surrounding it.
Tags: Christianity, Church, Joel Osteen, Lakewood Church, Lawsuit, Victoria Osteen
Love Your Enemies
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under My Faith, Web Clips
Ye have heard that it hath been said, Thou shalt love thy neighbour, and hate thine enemy. But I say unto you, Love your enemies, bless them that curse you, do good to them that hate you, and pray for them which despitefully use you, and persecute you; That ye may be the children of your Father which is in heaven: for he maketh his sun to rise on the evil and on the good, and sendeth rain on the just and on the unjust.
Matthew 5:43-45
The Pharisees taught the people to hate the enemies of Israel. The implication was that this hatred was God’s means of judging their enemies. Jesus taught the people just the opposite. “Love your enemies and pray for those who persecute you.
The Christian is to love others as God loves them. This is God’s standard of love. God doesn’t have to love us. He loves us because He chooses to love; it’s only by His grace. He loves us while we were alienated from Him as His enemies. The sinful mind is hostile toward God.
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Tags: Christian, Christianity, Enemies, love
“Oprah and Friends” To Teach Course on New Age Christ
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Kingdom of the Cults
By Warren Smith
Oprah Winfrey will be letting out all the stops on her XM Satellite Radio program this coming year. Beginning January 1, 2008, “Oprah & Friends” will offer a year-long course on the New Age teachings of A Course in Miracles .1 A lesson a day throughout the year will completely cover the 365 lessons from the Course in Miracles “Workbook.” For example, Lesson #29 asks you to go through your day affirming that “God is in everything I see.”2 Lesson #61 tells each person to repeat the affirmation “I am the light of the world.” 3 Lesson #70 teaches the student to say and believe “My salvation comes from me.”4
Tags: A Course in Miracles, Christianity, Church, contemplative spirituality, Cults, Discernment, Emergent Church, Faith, Life, new age, occult, Oprah, Warren Smith
Christianity Will Vanish…
Posted by Pastor Kurt | Filed under Quotes, Randomness, Web Clips
Christianity will go—it will vanish and shrink. I needn’t argue with that; I’m right and I will be proved right. We are more popular than Jesus now; I don’t know which will go first—rock and roll or Christianity. — John Lennon, March 4, 1966
Tags: Christianity, John Lennon, Quotes
