Entries Tagged as ‘God’

June 26, 2008

Another Trinity Debate - Hosted by the Biblical Unitarian Society of Southhampton

The Biblical Unitarian Society at the University of Southampton, UK, has hosted a debate on the Trinity. The debate occurred on June 16th, 2008. Representing the trinitarian side were two Anglicans, Prof. Keith Fox and Chris Halls both from Highfield Church. The two biblical unitarians that participated in the debate were Ray Faircloth of Restoration [...]

June 10, 2008

Debating The Trinity

Presented by Brant Bosserman and Sean Finnegan at the One God Conference, Seattle WA June 1st 2008, commentary by Sean Finnegan. Click here to listen the entire 2 hour debate or click on one of the parts below.
The debate was over whether God is a single individual (the Father of Jesus) or if he is [...]

May 4, 2008

Is Our Pain God’s Problem? - Bart Ehrman & N.T. Wright

Two of HGO’s favorites (for different reasons) discuss via blog posts this important topic on suffering, evil in the world and the Kingdom of God.

http://blog.beliefnet.com/blogalogue/

Here’s a brief summary -

Is our pain God’s problem? If God is good and all-powerful, why does he allow so much suffering? These kinds of questions—sometimes called the problem of theodicy—have [...]

May 1, 2008

The Bridge

Wow….
Can we continue to just sit by and do nothing for our God?  For our Creator?  What is so important that He gets put on the back burner, the bottom of the list?  What are we waiting for?  What else does He have to do?  Stop sitting on the train of apathy - riding no [...]

April 30, 2008

Theological Conference 11 - My Story–To God Be The Glory

Click here to listen to My Story: To God Be The Glory presented by Joel Hemphill, Apr 30th 2008, Atlanta Georgia. Commentary by Sean Finnegan.
Famed gospel singer, Joel Hemphill, the surprise guest of the conference, delivered a riveting message about his story with God from his initial conversion at 10 years old to his recent [...]

April 26, 2008

Oprah’s Testimony?

Wow.  Interesting comments from Oprah Winfrey don’t you think? It seems from her story here that he did not like what she was hearing from church, but still wanted to keep some form of “spirituality” in her life that fit her views and her perspectives on life.  There are many say things that I was [...]

March 29, 2008

What is forever all about?

This was powerful and confronting (as Paul Washer usually seems to be).
Do you desire God?  Do you have passion for Him?  We’ve spoken about this before and it needs to be raised again.  What drives us?
Washer highlights an important idea in light of eternity.  God is the theme and focus and purpose of eternity, that [...]

March 27, 2008

Caring for the world in light of the coming Kingdom?

There certainly has been a good amount of publicity for N.T. Wright’s new book “Surprised by Hope.”  (I look forward to reading it soon myself).  As a big fan of Bishop Wright who has read and listened to him with some frequency, I have gotten a good handle on his view of life, death and [...]

March 27, 2008

Make War.

Powerful.
What’s your attitude towards the sin in your life?  Passive?
John Piper makes a powerful statement in this video regarding spiritual warfare.  Is Satan the cause of all of our problems?  Or are we?
“Nobody goes to hell because of Satan.  One will go to hell because of sin! 
Our lust is what leads us to sin.  Here [...]

March 25, 2008

Are You Reaching Your Potential?

Saw this advertisement for the job search site, Monster.com

This ad made me think about our lives for the LORD.  Are we living up to our potential.  He created us to glorify Him.  His son died to offer forgiveness for our sins against Him.  He sent His spirit to those who turned to Him to empower [...]