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Scripture Reading for Monday March 31

stevebag | March 31, 2008

At NCC we supply Scripture reading for the week in preparation for the weekly message on Sunday. Today’s reading:
Matthew 24-25

The Olivet Discourse is Jesus’ last major conversation with his disciples. Often misunderstood and misplaced, we will look at Luke’s version of the discourse starting this Sunday. It is important to see the [...]

The Word – The Gospel of John | The Colbert Report | Comedy Central

stevebag | March 30, 2008

Stephen Colbert makes me laugh…he is irreverent, but funny. Mostly added it to highlight the politicization of the gospel by Fallwell and Robertson…as pointed out by the Michael Spenser article cited below
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.1044805&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D164382] from www.comedycentral.co posted with vodpod

Technorati Tags: Stephen Colbert, Barack Obama, [...]

Evangelicals and Homosexuality

stevebag | March 30, 2008

Michael Spencer at the Internet Monk has written a provocative and insightful post called “What Do Gays and Lesbians Hear?” on Evangelical challenges in rightly dealing with the issue of homosexuality.
Technorati Tags: Homosexuality, Evangelical, Internet Monk, Michael Spencer

THE VICE GUIDE TO NORTH KOREA – VBS.TV

stevebag | March 29, 2008

Thanks to Virgil at Unfinished Christianity who turned me on to these videos about North Korea.  They are a sort of unauthorized documentary – quite a story.  There is some non-Temple like language in the videos. There are 14 Videos, you can watch them at VBS.TV
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.1041818&w=425&h=350&fv=videoId%3D1438428757%26playerId%3D452319916%26viewerSecureGatewayURL%3Dhttps%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices%2Famfgateway%26servicesURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fservices.brightcove.com%2Fservices%26cdnURL%3Dhttp%3A%2F%2Fadmin.brightcove.com%26domain%3Dembed%26autoStart%3Dfalse%26] from www.vbs.tv [...]

R.C. Sproul: What Is Free Will? Video

stevebag | March 29, 2008

A much younger RC talking about a very important subject that is widely misunderstood
[vodpod id=Groupvideo.1036263&w=425&h=350&fv=docId%3D5447393660509611469%26playerMode%3Dsimple%26hl%3Den] from stevebag.vodpod.com posted with vodpod

Technorati Tags: RC Sproul, Free Will

RC Sproul interviews Ben Stein about the movie Expelled: No Intelligence Allowed

stevebag | March 28, 2008

RC Sproul Interviews Ben Stein about his upcoming movie, Expelled. Strange bedfellows indeed.
[vodpod id=ExternalVideo.490648&w=425&h=350&fv=docId%3D-4609561480192587449%26playerMode%3Dsimple%26hl%3Den] from video.google.com posted with vodpod

Visit the original post on Ligonier Ministries Blog and visit the Expelled website to view a trailer of the movie set to be in movie [...]

High Information Diet

stevebag | March 26, 2008

Here is a great article on whether or not we take in enough information: Go on a High Information Diet.
Author Dustin Wax summarizes his article this way:
My advice is the opposite: you don’t need less information, you need more information. What you need less of is input — all the crap that flows at [...]

Document Freedom Day

stevebag | March 26, 2008

Today was Document Freedom Day.

Blessed Saturday…Getting Ready for Sunday

stevebag | March 15, 2008

I don’t know how you prepare for worship on Sunday, but one of my habits I have decided to share with you is what I practice on Saturday. I am blessed with Russian genes, which means I default to pessimism. As a believer, that seems like an unacceptable place to stay, so I [...]

Left Behind: Appropriate Category

stevebag | March 4, 2008

ht: Tim Bagdanov, Jessica Baird
Technorati Tags: Left Behind, Eschatology, Science Fiction