Tuesday, August 26, 2008

enough is enough, amen?

the below text was/is my last comment to a post on the topic of the most recent buzz over Mike G from Australia not posted for discussion, but for anti-discussion. this is were i stand on this issue.

if i were mike reading this, im not sure how i'd feel right now. maybe cry, maybe want to throw my monitor down the hall. not really sure. if i were really sick, mentally, maybe suicide.

mike, if you ever do read this. we just want you to know what you already know.. that God loves you.. that Jesus loves you and always takes us back. i apologize that so many (myself included) have taken liberty to discuss your personal life amongst ourselves as if we were entitled to do so. forgive us. may peace be on you and your family. -tg

(to some of you others reading this.. you may disagree. you may think that because mike was so much in the public eye that we are entitled to discuss these things - or insert whatever reason you may have. i've read so many variations of this story already, that its only a matter of time before it comes out that he was an arms dealer in iraq. please, lets stop this. you may call me a hypocrite because here i am commenting on a post about mike. yes, i admit i was quickly caught up on all the buzz. and so from hence forth, this is my only further comment on subject.. "let’s not talk about mike")



http://www.chrisfromcanada.com/?p=710#comment-4026

Mike, i dont know you, you dont know me, but we both know Christ.. and that make us family. I wish you well and hope to see you back on your feet with Gods grace in Gods time.

Tuesday, August 12, 2008

Feelin' a little Old School?

"Do not think that I have come to abolish the Law or the Prophets; I have not come to abolish them but to fulfill them. I tell you the truth, until heaven and earth disappear, not the smallest letter, not the least stroke of a pen, will by any means disappear from the Law until everything is accomplished. Anyone who breaks one of the least of these commandments and teaches others to do the same will be called least in the kingdom of heaven, but whoever practices and teaches these commands will be called great in the kingdom of heaven. For I tell you that unless your righteousness surpasses that of the Pharisees and the teachers of the law, you will certainly not enter the kingdom of heaven” (Matthew 5:17-20).

The thought that came to me is this.. how much of the old testament and its teaching do we wrongfully dismiss? I realize that with the new testament came a change in the receipt of salvation and it also gave us specific duties to fulfill, but what about the old school traditions?