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Journal Thoughts – Of Scripture, Soteriology, Manny Ramirez and Personality Cults

Posted on May 9, 2009 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 536 Comments

(These are written thoughts taken from my journal.  Straight from my head to you, uncut, un-edited and totally random)

I am thankful for God’s Standard. In this age especially there are so many ideas and so many beliefs and so many ideologues it gets very confusing. So many people want you to see things their way and attempt with all their ingenuity to get you to do so. There is such a comfort in knowing that God has revealed Himself to us in His Word and through His Son. How gracious of Him to do this for us!

Hyper-Calvinism
No ability => No responsibility

Arminianism
Responsibility => Ability

Calvinism
Responsibility ≠> Ability
No Ability ≠> No Responsibility

News came out today that Manny Ramirez was suspended for 50 games for breaking MLB’s drug policy. It sucks that baseball is killing itself from within. It’s a common expectation that the players are “juiced” and “dirty” and we’re surprised (and still suspicious) when a player is clean. It womps.

Why is so much in Christianity simply a big personality cult? So much of how Christians operate focuses on Christian leaders and not on Christ. Lord save us from ourselves!

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The Christian’s Weakness and Christ’s Strength

Posted on July 29, 2008 by Andrew J. Nicewander| 570 Comments

I came across this wonderful quote by Octavius Winslow in my morning devotions.

Who is more feeble than a child of God? Taught the lesson of his weakness in the region of his own heart, and still learning it in his stumblings, falls, and mistakes, many and painful, in his self-inflicted wounds and dislocations, he is at length brought to feel that all his strength is outside of himself. He has the “sentence of death in himself, that he should not trust in himself.” “I am weak, yes, weakness itself,” is his language; “I am as a reed shaken of the wind; I stumble at a feather; I tremble at an echo; I recoil at my own shadow; the smallest difficulty impedes me; the least temptation overcomes me. How shall I ever fight my way through this mighty host, and reach in safety the world of bliss?” By leaning daily, hourly, moment by moment, upon your Beloved for strength. Christ is the power of God, and He is the power of the children of God. Who can strengthen the weak hands, and confirm the feeble knees, but Jesus? In those who have no might He increases strength. When they are weak in themselves, then are they strong in Him. His declaration is-”My strength is made perfect in weakness.” Lean, then, upon Jesus for strength.

-Octavius Winslow

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