tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-374259922012-02-04T21:19:01.403-08:00The ramblings from a seminary student with a BS in biotechnology, as I try to center my life around Scripture, God's essential and sufficient word.Boggyhttp://www.blogger.com/profile/17005194032462955106noreply@blogger.comBlogger401100tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-37425992.post-82183195716632603342008-11-17T23:19:00.001-08:002008-11-17T23:20:23.008-08:00

Here is a sermon I'm giving in class tomorrow that I'm really excited about. Its from the Old Testament book of Habakkuk. I'll let you know how it goes.Sorry that it is a little long but it is only a 15 minute sermon: In case you haven't noticed, this world just isn't right. There are many evil people who do their wicked deeds and they prosper, while the righteous and innocent are abused. There

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Well, you must forgive me.... I have not written here in a long time, and I was given a hard time about that, so I'm coming back. I have a big hermeneutics paper due Tuesday, but when that is done, I'll be posting again. Giving an update on my life and thoughts. ...So, see you very soon

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If you don’t love God, you can’t do anybody any ultimate good. You can feed them and clothe them and house them and keep them comfortable while they perish. But in God’s mind that is not what love is. Love does feed and clothe and house—and keeps the commandments which would include helping others know and love God in Christ. But if you don’t love God, you can’t do that. So if you don’t love God,

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Wow, it took me 5 months but I finally finished my writing of Habakkuk- One man’s struggle and reconciliation with God Its 30 pages long, 18,445 words, and just a lot of my thoughts. Yay for actually completing things!But what should I do next? hmmmm

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Forgive me if this isn’t my most organized post, its more of a heartfelt response for what just happened then a theological dissertation…But if you haven’t heard already, a fourth school shooting this week has occurred at a university in Illinois. You can read about it here:http://news.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/americas/7247390.stmor here:http://www.foxnews.com/story/0,2933,330792,00.html It was

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Exploit Your Pastor Yes, and he would want you to. Calvinists Who Don't Know They Are Is every Christian really a Calvinists?Can Christian Musicians Play Secular Music for God’s Glory?Hope you enjoy one of them-Chris

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Why would a well off man who has escaped the "ghetto" move back into the inner city?Lecrae, a marvelous christian rapper tells us whyDON'T WASTE YOUR LIFE!

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“Then He will answer them, ‘Truly I say to you, to the extent that you did not do it to one of the least of these, you did not do it to Me.”’ (Matthew 25:45)I’ve been hearing a lot about this verse lately from a variety of people, probably because it has become very popular when connected with Mercy Missions or Social Justice. There is a lot to say on this, so this is going to be a long one….I

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I received 78 credits on The Sci Fi Sounds QuizHow much of a Sci-Fi geek are you? Take the Sci-Fi Movie Quiz Canon S5

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I’ve decided to start reviewing some of book I’m reading. This will allow me to give others an encouragement to read a book that I really enjoyed and also a warning to stay away from the ones that aren’t so good. I just finished the book Guidance and the Voice of GodBy Phillp Jensen & Tony Payne This book is for everyone since none of us are omniscient (know everything) or omnipotent (

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I have a quick survey that I would like everyone to fill out for me if you have the time and inclination. There are just a few questions I would like you to answer, and don’t worry, I am actually using this a project I’m working on. Feel free to answer as long or short as you would like. <!--[if !supportLists]-->1. <!--[endif]-->In your opinion, what is Justice? <!--[if !supportLists]-

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"Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." (1 Corinthians 10:31) It final season here at UC Davis, and therefore all of us students are studying very hard (or at least we should be, this is my small break). I was sitting with some friends of mine the other week sharing our prayer requests, and as any normal college student right before finals, I asked for prayer to do well on my tests.

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Frank at Pyromaniacs writes on The Second Mistake?Its about the balance between focusing on Salvation on heaven while looking to the Kingdom on earth. Very insightful... "The Gospel is not either salvation or kingdom: it is both. And may Jesus come quickly."O how must we remember that We are Washed in the same bloodEven when we disagree, Christ died for all true believers.Why Complementarianism

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Here are just some things that I am thankful for (first to God and then to other people) this Thanksgiving Day (its cool to have an actual holiday to remind us to be thankful, so I'm going to use it for that this year). This list is by no means totally exhaustive, so, if you think there is anything important I’m forgetting, feel free to comment (but there are so many, don’t get made at me if I

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Well, its that time again... time for the wonderful UC system of midterms every 2 weeks, so I do not have too much time to post. I'm just trying to study to the Glory Of God (more to come on this at some point soon)But with thanksgiving coming up I think we all should take a few minutes and think about what we have to be thankful for. Because we do we have that we did not receive (1 cor 4:7). I'm

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Conservative, Liberal or Christian? http://www.epm.org/articles/conservx.htmlThis is an article written by Randy Alcorn in the mid 90's that I think still ring true today. Its interesting how his prediction of what would happen to the "conserative government" totally came true. Also, here is a quote from him I just loved:"I get tired of being told I have to choose between conservatism's emphasis

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Have you ever looked at the world around you and said: “God! Why do you allow evil to happen? There are people crying out for help, I’m crying out for help, yet you seem to do nothing. Why do you let these things happen? Where is the justice Lord, why do evil people seem to prosper while your servants fail?” You know what? The prophet Habakkuk thought the exact thing. Habakkuk 1:1-4 (it’s

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So, I've decided to start posting other things I found online of people who are much wiser, smarter, insightful then myself. These are things that I run across online that I thought was interesting, thought provoking or heart felt. So I greatly encourage you to check some of these out, since these are far wiser people than me:Pastor Paul asks What Words Should Start Our Prayers?http://

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So, after reading a certain article, I have officially been convinced to change my blog's name. But I need suggestions. Any idea out there? Any nice biblical words go with Blogstad?thanks!

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This is something that I’ve been thinking over for a while and so it just all kind of exploded onto paper, so sorry its so long. So Here is my devotional writing on Prov 21:13: “Whoever closes his ear to the cry of the poor will himself call out and not be answered” Woah, what is up with this verse, why would God not answer me? Why would God not hear or even ignore my prayers of desperation?

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Just a reminder:Tomorrow (October 31st) is not just Halloween, but it is also Reformation day, the "490th anniversary of the day that Martin Luther nailed his 95 Theses to the door of the church at Wittenburg. In so doing he struck a match, beginning a fire that quickly spread throughout Europe and throughout the world." While Luther may not have been perfect, God used him greatly to bring the

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All the fires down in SoCal are bit scary right and are causing a lot of damage, messing up a lot of lives, but I think our friends over at SFpulpit say it best:"In the midst of it all, we are rejoicing in God’s sovereign control over the natural elements, including the wind which is what is making these fires difficult to contain (cf. Amos 4:13). We know there is no reason to be anxious; and we

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So, I'm still trying to decide on the blog name, I've heard some really interesting things from people. But in the mean time, here's another thought from me:------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------ The other day, I was sitting in my African Studies class learning about the Akan people group in West Africa who

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Ok, so if you're just glancing at this, or you read my blog whenever you get a chance, I was wondering if you could help me out with a question.What do you think of when you see the word Fundamental? I created this site before I knew of some of the negative connotations of that word (such as some of the ideas that people think about with fundamentalists) and so I've been considering changing the

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So I'm working on a question that arose in my mind during class today about what kind of marriage/living arraignment is biblically appropriate. I'll get that out in the next few days. But for now... this was something that caught my eye:Guilt, Grace, and the Global AIDS Crisishttp://www.desiringgod.org/ResourceLibrary/TasteAndSee/ByDate/2002/1219_Guilt_Grace_and_the_Global_AIDS_Crisis/ok, I know,

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The pastor at my home church, Jon McNeff, gave a great sermon the other week called Where Your Treasure Is specifically about giving and what we do with our money in general. I’m stealing a lot of the stuff from him, but it was such a good sermon that I thought I should write my responses and add a few additional thoughts. It was great for the simple reason that it was so very convicting, it

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Wow, I just made a fun accomplishment. For those of you who don't know, which would be almost everyone, I've been doing a study of Romans for a long time, well, almost since the end of my freshman year of college, and I'm a senior now. No, I haven't been working on it every day the entire time, I took breaks (sometimes long ones) and did other stuff. But tonight, I finally finished it!!!! 3 years

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I’ve been working on the issue of Justice recently, especially Social Justice, which will all come out in a paper I’m currently working on, but before that is done, I had one idea that I thought I would take a moment to write about. I find it interesting that in this post modern world we’re even having a discussion on “justice”. Webster’s defines justice as “the administration of law; especially

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Wow, Finally, I'm posting again I’m reading a book right now called Suffering and the Sovereignty of God by John Piper and Justin Taylor. They are actually the general editors of a series of chapters written by different people. I’m a little over half way thru right now, but all I can say is WOW, this has been a good book so far. It’s a bit heady at times, because its trying to reconcile the

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I'm copying the idea of my friend and posting some devotional thoughts on a passage. I hope my thoughts are of some encouragment. 2 Peter 1:3-4 " His divine power has granted to us all things that pertain to life and godliness, through the knowledge of him who called us to his own glory and excellence, by which he has granted to us his precious and very great promises, so that through them

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Someone I know was having issues with being a quiet person and feeling bad about it, not as outgoing as I am, or other people are, so I wrote this to help. Please enjoy! To be quiet is actually not a bad thing, the opposite of what many in our culture say. We are told you have to stand up for your rights, be really outgoing and popular, but that is not the picture scripture paints. 1 peter 3:

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So, a while ago I posted a message about how I believe the bible clearly shows that God has decided that people who are saved must have the word preached to them and then through that they can be saved (Here), and a friend of mine brought up a good passage questioning how it worked with what I said.The passage was romans 2:12-16 "12All who sin apart from the law will also perish apart from

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So, I finally got access to my blog again, Blogger changed over to using google accounts only and I had not yet changed my account to the new system. When it became mandatory to use the new system I could not get access to my account for the longest time, but it works again, so I'm back!

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If you have a blog... you should put up your testimony on tuesday and link to Challies.comcheck the link below for more infohttp://www.challies.com/archives/002398.php

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So, I’m back! Sorry, I was a horrible blogger, not blogging for an entire qtr (I guess that’s what happens when no one else I know is blogging… yeah, all you lazy people need to encourage me by writing things I can respond to and bounce ideas off… just kidding, I’ll take my own blame) But, I was inspired to write tonight after coming out of a good bible study on Galatians 2. Forgive the

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Merry Christmas everyone! Even though this is probably not the actual day that Jesus Christ was born, it is still the time we choose to remember one of the two greatest miracles (this being the first, and the resurrection being the second). So remember this day as the day that the God of the universe humbled himself, so that he was made into a man with the purpose of dying on the Cross for

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All of us living in the US have incredibly comfortable lives. Even the people who are the poorest in nation here are richer than most of the world. Most of the world is poorer, dirtier, and harder to live in. The US is the world’s equivalence to Disney Land, all pretty and clean, but somewhat fake. I have been incredibly blessed by God as he has given me a blessed life with very little tragedy

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ok, so I haven't posted in the past two weeks due to finals, but I will have something up tomorrow.

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One question that has been coming up in my life, and in much of the professing church in America, is can someone who has is not a Christian get into heaven? Will God nota allow people into heaven who don’t believe in Jesus yet still have very sincere and strong faith? This is a hard question, one that tests our basic ideas about our views of God and salvation for us humans, and so it is very

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So, I'm back into the bloggin scene, and I'm going to try to keep this one up......so, to start it off... I ask the question, how are we to sacrifice all for Christ? In my bible study this week we were talking about luke 9:57-62, when men come up to Jesus saying they want to follow Him, but they have something to do first and he basically demands them to sacrifice everything, their homes,

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