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The God Delusion -IV

Posted in Academic, Apologetics Christian, Baptist, Christian Anti-Defamation, Christology, Darwinian evolution, Faith, Post-Christian America, Religion, Richard Dawkins, The God Delusion, Theism, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob, tagged on SatUTC2009-03-14T22:27:41+00:00 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The God Delusion is sure to garner significant attention in the media and in popular culture. Dawkins, along with the other fashionable skeptics and atheists of the day, makes for good television and creates an instant media sensation. In one sense, we should be thankful for the forthrightness with which he presents his arguments. [...]

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St. Augustine

Posted in Apologetics Christian, Baptist, Christian Anti-Defamation, Christology, Church History, Church Planting, Holiness, Integrity, Poetry, St. Augustine, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob, tagged on SatUTC2009-03-14T22:11:06+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

What is this which gleams through me?
And smites my heart without wounding it?
I am both a-shudder and aglow.
A-shudder, in so far as I am unlike it,
Aglow in so far as I am like it.
- St Augustine (354 –430 AD)

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Madam Guyon

Posted in Baptist, Devotional, Poetry, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob, tagged on SatUTC2009-03-07T17:07:57+00:00 28, 2007 | 1 Comment »

Some two hundred years ago the saintly Madam Guyon, (1648 – 1717) after ten years spent in a dungeon lying far below the surface of the ground, lit only by a candle at meal-times, wrote these words:

A little bird I am,
Shut from the fields of air;
Yet in my cage I sit and sing
To Him who [...]

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When Christian Truth meets Post-Christian America – Part II

Posted in America, Apologetics Christian, Post-Christian America, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob on FriUTC2008-12-12T01:06:11+00:00 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »

The Church has constantly been perplexed concerning its proper relation to culture. H. Richard Niebuhr traced five different patterns of cultural response in his famous work, Christ and Culture. The book over-simplified the issues and now looks awkwardly optimistic, but some of the patterns Niebuhr described are still evident. The Church as at times withdrawn [...]

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Christianity in America

Posted in Academic, America, Christology, Holiness, Religion, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob on SatUTC2008-10-11T20:50:01+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Now I rejoice in my sufferings for your sake, and fill up on my part that which is lacking of the afflictions of Christ in my flesh for his body’s sake, which is the church; Col 1:24 (ASV)
I come back from a weekend of ministry at the Coral Ridge Presbyterian Church in Fort Lauderdale [...]

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Kenosis Bible College

Posted in Academic, Christology, Church History, Holiness, Incarnation, Modern-day televangelism, Philosophy, Religion, The Cross, Theology, Thoughts, Wesley Jacob on FriUTC2008-02-01T15:55:21+00:00 28, 2007 | 2 Comments »

Rev. Wesley Jacob is led by the Holy Spirit, to teach the people of God through an online Bible College viz, Kenosis Bible College at My Church.org

The Courses offered are given below:
Church History
Major World Religions
Old Testament Theology
New Testament Theology
Pauline Theology
Systematic Theology
The first subject that will be taught would be Church History. As you would perhaps [...]

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Christian Bumper Stickers

Posted in Elizabeth Jacob, Thoughts on TueUTC2008-01-01T18:06:21+00:00 28, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

Many people want to serve God, but only as advisers.
It is easier to preach ten sermons than it is to live one.
The Lord didn’t create anything without a purpose, but mosquitoes come close.
When you get to your wit’s end, you’ll find God lives there.
People are funny. [...]

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