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David Hayward is a pastor artistically stripping to the essential.
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David Hayward is a pastor artistically stripping to the essential.
#PatRobertsonIsNotSpeakingForMe
I blame Napoleon the third.. or something..
Ha ha, brilliant!
I haven’t found that graph to be true in my own life.
Jesus said, “in this world you will have trouble.”
“If they did this to me when the wood is hard, what will they do to you when it is green.”
Apparently Pat skipped class the day his Theology School professor taught on the book of Job.
prodigal daughter: indeed!
You have essentially a straight line progression. Are it sure it isn’t more hyperbolic?
John
John: seems to me that the worse the tragedy is, the more useless any attempts to explain it become.
There’s a fault line that runs under Haiti. It seems that would be the explanation.
I saw a picture of dead people lined up uncovered, including a little boy probably about 10 or 11 years old. I have a son that age.
How people can match this situation up with a loving heavenly Father is beyond my understanding.
The help they receive will come from the decency and care from other people all over the world who are now rushing to help them.
This realization, a few years ago, broke me as a pastor and a Christian, more than any other. My confidence, faith and theology pretty much shattered over that jagged, red line.
Absolutely brilliant!
the spiritual violence that has been done is horrifying. not by the earthquake but by the person i shall not name.
sure god can and has done stuff like that. he’s god, he’s not accountable to us. but instead of using this tragedy to shine the light back to a perfect god in an unperfect and scary world, this sociopath in a pulpit has spiritually raped so many believers, and also so many non believers who, when faced with christ, will possibly tell christ no because of this man’s actions.
I guess he thought they were not obeying their masters with enough fear and trembling. He might wonder why some “pact with the devil” paid off with freedom for them, where presumably praying to god did not.
I wish I believed in hell.
A-yup.
Good one!
I am incredibly impressed that you can post this, and still provide pastoral care to your flock. I found it to be beyond me.
The post on this blog is good: http://gkupsidedown.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-earthquake-caused-by-witchcraft.html
T-shirts? If not, would you mind me making one with this? I’m always up for a good sidewalk argument.
Daniel: I’d buy one. Or three.
May I have your permission to post this on my church’s website, with proper attribution of course? I’d like to use it as the picture for my sermon podcast. The site is ComeToCorinth.org.
This graph is brilliant. Had to share it… http://revdlesley.blogspot.com/2010/01/haiti-why-does-bad-stuff-happen.html
So I owe you a beer – how much is that in your part of the world?