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I gathered a bunch of YouTube video’s on Mark Driscoll and Tim Keller. If you enjoy their ministries, you’ll enjoy these snippets. If you find any other YouTube snippets, let me know.
Mark Driscoll
Tim Keller
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What do you get when you mix a children’s icon with a fanatical group of Muslims? You get Farfur!
This is Disney Hamas style! But you liberal Islamic sympathizers would be dismayed to know that this Mickey is far from the Mickey you and I got to know in our youth. According to this article,
“Farfur speaks in a high-pitched voice and wears a tuxedo with tails and a red bow tie. He tells children to drink their milk and pray, but also sings about kids arming themselves with AK-47s and striving for world domination under Islamic leadership.”
Just lovely isn’t it? It’s got the only surviving child of Walt Disney pulling her hair out in disgust…
“Of course I feel personal about Mickey Mouse, but it could be Barney as well,” Ms Miller, 73, told the New York Daily News.
“It’s not just Mickey, it’s indoctrinating children like this, teaching them to be evil,” said Ms Miller, who owns a winery in northern California.
“The world loves children and this is just going against the grain of humanity.”
Hamas, in an attempt to save face, shows how ignorantly stupid and hateful they are by responding…
“Our problem is not with the Jews,” Yehia Moussa, a Hamas leader in the movement’s Gaza Strip base, told The Associated Press.
“Our problem is with the (Israeli) occupation and the occupiers.”
OK so that justifies creating a Jew and American hating Mickey mouse! I’m sure the terrorists wrapping themselves in explosives, take the time out to watch an episode before they go blow themselves up!
Even Fatah, the political and ideological opponents of Hamas (in times of peace at least cause these people are so depraved they turn on each other when they haven’t got an issue with Israel) oppose the video.
“I don’t think it’s professional or even humane to use children in such harsh political programs,” said Basem Abu Sumaya, head of Fatah’s Palestinian Broadcasting Corp, told the AP.
“Children’s nationalist spirit must be developed differently.”
Oh this sounds good until you see what the Fatah is doing with their children…
These pictures coming from a rally marking the 39th anniversary of the
founding of the mainstream Fatah Movement in the Khan Younis
refugee camp, southern Gaza Strip, Friday Jan. 2. 2003 (AP Photo/Khalil Hamra).
This all makes me seriously want to vomit. As a Christian living in the West, I have a very pro-Israeli world view. I know that the Jews are not completely innocent in the treatment of their neighbors. But then again, which country is?
But what get’s me really fired up is when young, hip, liberal, “air heads with a degree” start pointing their fingers at Israel and accuse them of all sorts of things. Israel is surrounded by fanatics in all directions - except for the immediate west - which happens to be the Mediterranean ocean (unless of course we may find explosive strapped fish being trained up!)
What’s happening in the Middle East is a spiritual war cause God just happened to declare that the land is the “apple of His eye.” The Messiah was born there and the Messiah will return there. If you were the enemy of God, you would also attempt to wreck havoc in the area.
And the enemy has a great ally in this cosmic battle arena - the radical Muslim. The Bible predicted that this will be the case thousands of years before it happened. We are seeing this now played out in our lifetime..
The angel of the LORD also said to her:
“You are now with child
and you will have a son.
You shall name him Ishmael,
for the LORD has heard of your misery.He will be a wild donkey of a man;
his hand will be against everyone
and everyone’s hand against him,
and he will live in hostility
toward all his brothers.”Genesis 16:11-12
Hmm…”wild donkey”, “his hand will be against everyone”, “live in hostility toward all his brothers.” In so many ways, this is the spirit of Farfur - The Hamas Mickey Mouse
farfur, islam, hamas, fatah, israel, disney
Again, I am in debt to my brother Mike for this article he wrote on the nature of depression from a Christian perspective. As a Christian and a practicing psychologist, I value his insight into what the medical community says, will be the biggest killer of mankind by 2020 - depression…..
One of the most misunderstood and misinformed topics among Christians about depression is what causes depression? Please note that in this context I refer to clinical depression which is a serious mental illness requiring both medication, psychological treatment, and of cause spiritual interventions. The following are just a handful of explanations I have heard from those who have experienced the dark hole of depression.
The questions that come to my mind when thinking of the above is, why do we suffer? Why is it that babies are born with deformities, children develop life-changing diseases, and cancer or dementia steals life from so many. I ultimately succumb to accept to the reality that suffering reflects a fallen humanity. Fallen from the perfectly created masterpiece which God intended. The most catastrophic event in all of history, resulted in mankind being vulnerable to the effects of separation from God.
Modern psychology and psychiatry has a bio-psycho-social perspective of depression, and mental illness in general. There are excellent works supported by scientific evidence showing that depression results from a combination of biological causes (brain structure and function, hormonal problems), psychological causes (inaccurate thinking, negative attributions about events) and social causes (homelessness, divorce, unemployment). Whether one is a Christian or not, the above view of depression remains true and consistent with the multidimensional effects of a depraved humanity in all spheres - the disintegration of physical health, mental functioning and social structures.
We return to the original intended question, “Can depression be caused by spiritual factors?”. Recall that the main effect of the fall of man was separation from God, otherwise known as spiritual death. I believe that unless and until one is born again and receives life through Jesus Christ, they will forever live life with an existential vacuum. In my opinion, a life without purpose and without hope is perhaps one of the most obvious spiritual causes for depression.
But what Christians often struggle with are questions as to why they experience depression, even when they have a meaningful life and the hope of salvation. How is it that with all the resources given by God such as the comfort of the Holy Spirit, the guidance of the Word, the presence of God through prayer, and the promises of abundant life, the Christian can become depressed?
The point of repentance and acceptance of Jesus and Lord and Saviour of our lives has unimaginable implications. We are reborn and become spiritually alive and once again united with God through Jesus and are able to partake and enjoy in the many benefits and promises of a life in union with God. Does our physical body change in any way? Do our minds instantly become conformed to that of Christ? Are our societies immediately transformed into harmonious “Pleasantvilles?” So why is it that we as Christians suddenly expect to become immune to the effects of depravity, including depression and other mental illnesses?
Christians are not immune from depression. In fact the Bible records many account of depression including Jeremiah, Job and most descriptively, King David. Their lives illustrate the reality and nature of the suffering of depression. However we return to the questions asked by Christians about depression.
Is God punishing me with depression because I sinned? The story of King David clearly showed that his sin resulted in his depressed state. He was so consumed by guilt that he wept throughout the night and his bones ached. However I would caution against saying that God punished David for his sin. Rather, David’s sin reaped the consequences of his sinful act leading to depression.
Do I get depressed because I don’t have enough faith? Job was perhaps one of the most faithful people of God despite his horrific suffering. Yet he remained faithful, and did not sin against God. What could be the reason he experienced such grief and depressed mood? Perhaps the following questions sheds some light.
Is depression an attack from Satan? Job’s experiences teaches us, the spiritual realm is a reality we far too often overlooked. Our weapons are against the spiritual forces of evil, and we have an enemy who wishes to kill, steal and destroy. The Bible clearly shows that Satan can inflict suffering on Christians which can lead to depression.
Does taking antidepressants mean I don’t have enough faith in God? This can too easily become a controversial topic, however I would like to counter it with another question. Do I lack faith in God if I take aspirin for my heart condition? Or if I take insulin for my diabetes? No one would ever question one’s faith for medications designed for physical ailments. Negative attitudes toward antidepressants by Christians reflects ignorance and only further stigmatizes the suffering.
In summary, I believe that depression has bio-psycho-socio-spiritual causes. However, at the most fundamental level, the causes for depression are due to a deterioration in body, mind and society due to the effects of spiritual death resulting from the fall of man. The questions and confusion from Christians who have suffered depression highlights the lack attention this has received from both Christian professionals and church leaders. As a result, many blame themselves, become weakened in faith, and question God altogether.
If we are to question the nature of depression, then we need to also question the nature and alleviation of other forms of suffering. Clinical depression is an illness. Diabetes is an illness. Cancer is an illness. Dementia is an illness. Rather than add to the divisions, let’s unite in our understanding and treatment for the suffering, and bring hope and peace to the hurting.
I must admit a bias against McLaren and the Emergent Church. Mostly this is because of their lack of doctrinal integrity - especially in the areas our modern world finds hard to swallow. Areas such as homosexuality, sin and atonement etc are very much “grey” areas for the Emergent movement.
I just a LayGuy in this whole area and I am on my journey of discovery. But my journey will always be guided by the authority of scripture. Many emergent people don’t like this “God says it - it must be true” mentality and I have already been addressed for this. But I honestly don’t care. Paul says to take every thought captive which stacks up itself against the knowledge of Christ. For the Emergents, they don’t take captive, they disregard the rest and run with the renegade thought.
However, I need to remember that the Emergents are still on my team because of Christ and I need to be humble enough to learn from them and to see if I can glean anything from them which I can apply. To do so, I listened to a sermon done by Dr. Gerry Breshears on the Emerging Church.
I found this sermon fascinating and informative as it focused on McLaren’s book, The Story We Find Ourselves In: Further Adventures of a New Kind of Christian
One of the strengths Breshears says about McLaren is his insight into modern culture and the revolt away from Church. I find this a very true assessment as in McLaren I see a guy who is concerned about the way Church is done - but runs in the opposite direction too quickly bypassing sound doctrine on the way. But many times I see in him a heart concerned for realism. A heart yearning to connect the lost of the world to Jesus. But his weakness is that he places man’s thoughts higher than God’s thoughts and encourages others to do so also.
Watch him below in this short video clip as he talks about the exploits of the modern worship music scene. I tend to agree with most of what he says until the end. I personally don’t see architecture as a tool for worship, but then again, that’s me, as the LayGuy and that’s McLaren..
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So the biggest social upheaval of our time is postmodernism. I must admit, as the LayGuy, I naturally steer away with anything to do with “isms” cause’ quite frankly, they confuse me in terms of how vague the references are and how relative they are to the individual. A breeding ground for opinion based on ones own opinion and worldview. Postmodernism fell into this category for a long time until I finally began to realise how real this phenomenon is.
Many are saying that “postmodernism” is the biggest motivator to change we have seen for a long time. It’s a challenge to many areas of life and many facets of life and business are in a continual cycle of evaluation an effort to keep up with the ever-changing values of postmodernism. But you need to go back to it’s foundations to understand the “rebellion” of postmodernism. Continue reading ‘What’s Making Us Postmodern?’
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