Jeremiah 3:15-17 - The blog of pastor.ctj

Note:   This piece came out of a debate that I was having on Facebook with a dear brother who is of the Arminian/Wesleyan/point of view... As I see it, the core problem here,  as always, is the sovereignty issue. Either we believe that salvation is a sovereign act of a sovereign God , or we believe that God’s will and salvific action is somehow secondary, or subordinate to man’s. So many believe that in fact God can only offer, in hopes that man will respond, but since they do not want to go quite that far, they’ll say that He, knowing that you would choose Him, chose you first. This is how most people try to rationalize Romans 8, and the doctrine of predestination. But it is, if you think about it carefully, quite silly actually. We ascribe complete sovereignty and omnipotence to God up until we get to man’s will. This appears to be God’s Kryptonite. He has the power to create and hang the stars, but cannot determine whether or not I’ll get sa...

In His seminal work: 'On being Black and Reformed' ,  Anthony Carter (Pastor of East Point Church in East Point Ga.) d iscusses the compatibility of African-American people and Reformed Theology. In one chapter he makes the case, noting that African-American theology, like Reformed Theology, is Experiential, Historical and Biblical. This got me thinking about what issues I have with 'church today' and I saw it clearly. We (so-called Black Christians) have placed too much weight on the wrong end of the stick. What I mean is that we (in the so-called Black Church)  have by and large, given supremacy to our experiences and culture, and we mistakenly interpret the Bible through this lens. (While this is true of many believers of different ethnicities, I am dealing specifically with the 'black church' at the moment) It is, in my estimation, a kind of culturo-experiential eisegesis which does a disservice to our flocks, ...

Please take a few moments to watch the following trailer... “There should be national sterilization for certain dysgenic types of our population who are being encouraged to breed, and would die out were the Government not feeding them.” - Margaret Sanger, founder of Planned Parenthood For more information about this woman and her writings, click here for a link to the lifedynamics.com library. "There will always be people, many of goodwill, who do not share my view on the issue of choice. On this fundamental issue, I will not yield and Planned Parenthood will not yield." – Barack Obama, President of the United States of America "Several years ago, when 17,000 aborted babies were found in a dumpster outside a pathology laboratory in Los, Angeles, California, some 12-15,000 were observed to be black." - Erma Clardy Craven Social Worker and Civil Rights Leader Minority women constitute only about 13% of the female population (age 15-44) in the United States, but they ...