As the Super Bowl weekend is here in all of it's manifesting of modern day gladiators (without the death) it is going to crown a new team of all time with The Patriots or an upstart team from New York. People that bet set the line @ 12 points so they think the Giants will not win.
So we shall see.....but the talk even affects the church see here:
http://online.wsj.com/article/SB120190701069036633.html?mod=home_we_banner_left
Also the bastion of liberal writing in America writes about an umpire who whole year was ruined by him having to attend "preaching," since he was Jewish. It is an unbalanced story that is a worthy read though as you can think of how to present Christ in a way that is non-threatening- As you ready this what would you do differently? and post your answer. The timing is interesting:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/sports/baseball/02chass.html?pagewanted=1&_r=1&ref=sports
Ah, but the big story of the week was Jimmy Carter, a good man, a man who has trouble with authority and surrender is back and has started a new Baptist denomination {New Baptist Covenant}
http://www.newbaptistcelebration.org/index.php?option=com_frontpage&Itemid=1
from outflow after his years of disagreement with Southern Baptists. They had said in the AJC that there would be 20,000 there, well 14,000 attended. But, it was all at the 30,000 foot level. Everything they said Southern Baptists are doing, they didn't talk about the differences except that we take the word of God too seriously. Paul would have liked that. Can you imagine Paul and Jimmy Carter discussing the Christ life?
You may be saying why do you say that about Jimmy? Well it is in his actions, knowing that his legacy as a president was in shambles he has set out to work on that legacy and has done a good job with that. You can't think of him and not think of Habitat for Humanity. But, I say as what he has said as the first past president to break a code by what he has said about Bush, his dealings with other countries and what he has said. Then his problem with Southern Baptists and their overall desire to honor the word.
In 2000, LifeSiteNews.com reported that Carter left the Southern Baptist Convention. Carter said the Southern Baptist Convention, which has almost 16 million members, has adopted policies "that violate the basic premises of my Christian faith," including a denominational statement that prohibits women from being pastors and tells wives to be submissive to their husbands. {he left twice-HH}
However, Morris H. Chapman, chairman of the SBC Executive Committee, noted that Carter, who was originally embraced by Baptist conservatives in 1976 when he publicly described himself as a born-again Christian, lost favour with conservative Christians after such actions as appointing Sarah Weddington - the lead attorney in the landmark 1973 abortion case, Roe v. Wade - to the White House position when he was assistant to the president.
LifeSite, Nov. 2005
The submission verse is pretty important if the man grasps the last part of the verse and Jimmy just missed what Paul was talking about. Isn't this sad? I mean I would expect the media not to unstand and how they took that whole verse and used it like a big 2x4 because they are clueless when it comes to the bible's teachings. But the fact that Jimmy didn't understand the importance of the fact that Paul was saying if a man is leading his wife in love and the honor of the Lord?.......hmm.
Jimmy Carter has more of a problem with the word of God than with Southern Baptists.
So it doesn't surprise me that he would invite Al Gore and Bill Clinton to speak at this event. But, John Grisham tells you how it should be for you-don't miss this:
http://www.bpnews.net/BPnews.asp?ID=27309
I was hoping that Al Gore would speak about his time in the White House and that he was repenting that he should have been like Daniel and spoke to Bill Clinton about his sin in extramarital affair and condemned it publicly like Daniel did with his leader about sin....but he didn't...he spoke about the environment. Can you imagine what that would have been like if Gore worshipped more of the creator and not the creation?
And Bill Clinton encouraged the group to have humility. That is good Bill. If only his actions demonstrated that.
So we let you see the links here to some stories from this historic meeting in Atlanta:
http://www.nytimes.com/2008/02/02/us/02baptists.html?ref=us
Gore and the green effect:
http://www.christiantoday.com/article/gores.green.message.resonates.with.baptists/16621.htm
Baptist Unity!
http://ap.google.com/article/ALeqM5gK2mRqLcifc_liM55J8g_SOMwbggD8UHTU4G0
Clinton's encouragement, "We should not let our response to the people who disagree with us be dictated by what they say about us, or even how they treat people that we care for," he said. "No matter what condemnation is directed against his movement, you must respond with a spirit of love."
http://www.abpnews.com/3010.article
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