The Best Ligonier Conference Yet!

Ligonier's 2007 National Conference

"Contending for the Truth"

Orlando, FloridaMarch 15-17, 2007

This Years Speakers:
John MacArthur
R. Albert Mohler, Jr.
John Piper
R.C. Sproul
Ravi Zacharias
R.C. Sproul, Jr.

For more details including the schedule of lectures go to http://www.ligonier.org/conference/orl2007/index.php

We are all immortals...

"Every human being is in the process of becoming a noble being; noble beyond imagination. Or else, alas, a vile being beyond redemption. The dullest and most uninteresting person you can talk to may one day be a creature which, if you saw it now, you would be strongly tempted to worship, or else a horror and a corruption such as you now meet, if at all, only in a nightmare.... There are no ordinary people... It is immortals who we joke with, work with, marry, snub and exploit- immortal horrors or everlasting splendors." -C.S. Lewis

Justification by Death

Below is an excerpt from a review of the movie World Trade Center by a gentleman who has a fantastic blog called Cross-Eyed. I thought he pointed out someting very interesting at the end...

"The context: As these two cops are trapped and about to die underneath 20 foot of rubble, they try to keep each other awake. While one goes in and our of conciousness, he sees Jesus. The implication is that he is very close to entering Heaven.On a serious note: we need to think deeply about this. If Karis (my daughter) were old enough to have theological conversations, my questions would go something like this: Karis, did this movie give any reason to believe that this cop was a Christian? Did this guy possess an obvious faith in God's promises? According to his own words, what was this cop's greatest treasure. What did he most want in what he thought were his last moments? Sadly, this movie was another instance of our culture's core theology: Justfication by death. This movie portrayed the false belief that all "good" people go to Heaven."

How true is that! This culture sadly believes in justification by death without a second thought. How blind people are to the truth!

For entire review go to http://justinchilders.blogspot.com// and read the blog from 8/11/06.

Christians and Politics

I am not a fan of Greg Boyd by any stretch of the imagination however I did like some of his comments made in an article that had appeared in the St. Paul Pioneer Press. Please take the time and let me know what you think. How involved in politics and social reform should Christians be? (On a side note- I would have walked out when Boyd said God doesn't know the future rather than waiting unitl I disagreed with him on this point!!!)

http://articles.news.aol.com/news/_a/disowning-conservative-politics-is/20060729195809990004