Joie de Vivre A Wretched Man’s Quest To Follow Jesus Christ

Mike at Still A Night Owl tagged me with this meme to list at least two posts from blogs I read that have resonated with me.

Rules:

1. List at least two posts (with links) that have resonated with you. Do not include your own posts!
2. Give a brief explanation why you like the post.
3. Tag four other people.

Without further ado:

The Righteousness That Exceeds That of the Scribes and Pharisees

Mike Ratliff’s blog, Possessing The Treasure, is one that warrants a daily visit if you are into good, Biblical insights on the Christian life.

In The Righteousness That Exceeds That of the Scribes and Pharisees, Mike talks about how most Christians today have never experienced real Christianity because they are not regenerate and languish in the “Religion of Do“.

What is the Religion of Do? Mike sums it up succinctly to mean those who those who “… being full of unbelief, are in the process of developing their own righteousness and are working to be conformed to it.”

It’s a great reminder to us who seek to become matured, Spirit-filled believers that our lives must be “… saturated by the Word of God…” and our obedience to God includes our “… relationships with others.”

Christians Get Mercy And Grace

Ray Comfort’s Comfort Food is another must-visit-daily blog.

Though short, Christians Get Mercy And Grace is a lovely reminder.

Why We Shouldn’t Work for the World’s Applause

I kid not when I say that I do need to re-reference my dictionary on occasion when I read Daniel’s blog Reformata Et Semper Reformanda. That’s not to say that he doesn’t write well nor clearly, but that I like how sometimes I learn new terms whenever I visit his blog.

Why We Shouldn’t Work for the World’s Applause isn’t one of those posts that requires checking the dictionary, but a direct look at how as Christians we are susceptible to succumb to peer pressure and group-think in church.

We are to work for the applause of One — God — only.

Standing For Righteousness

I was particularly encouraged by how Justin at Awesome Purpose stood for righteousness at work in his account. Mostly, we just keep quiet and mind our own business when faced with ungodly speech or behavior because we don’t want to stick out like a sore thumb.

In the process, we become tolerant of ungodliness and that, if I might take the hypothesis a little further here, could translate into allowing the same forms of ungodliness creeping into our own lives. Just as how churches have invited heresy and worldliness in, bit by bit.

The Resurrection Was Not On Sunday

Finally, this topic of which day the Resurrection of our Lord Jesus Christ fell on is amply and well-addressed by King’s Kid at her blog Just the WORD - Please!.

I have always maintained that the Lord’s Day is not Sunday, but that there’s Biblical evidence to indicate that the Resurrection was on the Sabbath instead of Easter Sunday. This post will help you with the math and see for yourself that there’s no new day or days that need be observed besides what God had ordained.

And now I tag:

1. Casey (You’re going to get tagged until you post something new, brother, ha ha!)
2. Shane
3. Shalene
4. Hannah (welcome back to blogging!)

Have a great week ahead!

Shalom Aleichem.

On April 5, The Moses Code, a film by James Twyman, will be opening in a theater near you.

What is the Moses code anyway?

Well, the trailer claims that “35 hundred years ago, God spoke to Moses and gave him a code that became the foundation of the Law of Attraction and the Laws of Manifestation”.

Huh?! Which part of the Bible says that there was such a code?

Well, remember the words spoken by God to Moses when the latter asked for His name?

Then Moses said to God, “If I come to the people of Israel and say to them, ‘The God of your fathers has sent me to you,’ and they ask me, ‘What is his name?’ what shall I say to them?” God said to Moses, “I AM WHO I AM.”…

– Exodus 3:13-14

Now that you know, watch the trailer and barf:

Slice of Laodicea has more on this movie, including (get this) how there will be many prayer groups all over the world holding prayer vigils in tandem with the release of the movie:

If you don’t read anything else on Slice today, please read this post. Following in the footsteps of The Secret and its teachings on the Law of Attraction, a movie is opening April 5 called“The Moses Code”. Please read about it, watch the trailer, and realize that 1000 prayer groups all over the world are holding prayer vigils like this one (see April 5) as they screen the movie. In the trailer when the actors in the movie come out with the blasphemous “I AM” statements, it sums up perfectly the New Spirituality we’ve been warning about. These are folks who believe that THEY are God. These people are praying for this evolutionary “shift” in the consciousness of the planet. So while these Satanic prayer vigils are going on, what is the evangelical and emerging churches doing? Helping things along by holding hair and fashion shows like Victory Church in Amarillo last Sunday instead of preaching the powerful Word of God; by holding yet another Christian sex event like Mark Driscoll, the foul mouthed preacher boy, who is now holding “Song of Solomon” conferences where he gets to talk about breasts and oral sex and justify it because, it’s in the Bible, after all. You can see Driscoll’s disgusting video right here. (Why is it that when these guys talk about sexuality it always carries a feeling of grime?) While Christian pastors obsess about sexuality and serve as ringmasters at their evangelical circuses, the enemy is holding prayer vigils. When is the last time you heard about one of those in a Christian church?

I am guessing there’s a feeding frenzy now on on all things New Age, with New Age priestess Oprah Winfrey’s recommendations to millions of her viewers to study “A Course in Miracles” by Marianne Williamson, watch “The Secret” DVD and promoting the latest “Get Ready to be Awakened” series of online courses by Eckhart Tolle on one end, and movies such as these on the other.

And I don’t think I exaggerate when I say that I’ve never ever seen occult practices pushed so blatantly in mainstream media! Until now…

Indeed, I am convinced all the more that we are living in the end of days, when such self-love and foolishness shall be prevalent.

For people will be lovers of self, lovers of money, proud, arrogant, abusive, disobedient to their parents, ungrateful, unholy, heartless, unappeasable, slanderous, without self-control, brutal, not loving good, treacherous, reckless, swollen with conceit, lovers of pleasure rather than lovers of God, having the appearance of godliness, but denying its power. Avoid such people. For among them are those who creep into households and capture weak women, burdened with sins and led astray by various passions, always learning and never able to arrive at a knowledge of the truth.

– 2 Timothy 3:2-7

HT: Slice of Laodicea.