The Human Condition

Thoughts While Driving To Work Today

James Townsend / October 31, 2009 / No Comments

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First off, I think Deepak Chopra gives me my Wendy’s breakfast order every morning.
Well. Probably not THE Deepak Chopra. But this guy looks just like him.
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The myriad disagreements between Christians struck me this morning during my drive through the cold drizzle of this gray Saturday.
This was probably because I passed my old Lutheran [...]

Maybe Then

James Townsend / July 15, 2009 / No Comments

Tags bible, calvinist, choir, christendom, christianity, church, culture, god, gospel, jennings dake, jesus christ, ministry, new geneva, paul, prayer, schofield, sin, the message, the voice, thompson, zeitgeist

Christianity has its own culture.
Because of this, Paul’s urge to make our calling sure is taking on a new sound for me today, because I am forced to ask myself, “Are you really a Christian, or are you just immersed in Christian culture?”
I think that is a question that we all need to ask ourselves.
See, [...]

Punch Them in the Nose and Take Their Cookies

James Townsend / July 15, 2009 / 1 Comment

Tags anger, bible, biblical, bride, buddhist, church, context, cookies, cross, enemies, enemy, freud, god, goodness, hebrews, jealousy, jesus, jesus christ, love, militant, mystery, nahum, nature, new living translation, new testament, old testament, phrophecy, post-modern, postmodern, prophet, prophetic, punch, restitution, resurrection, revelation, salvation, sin, song of solomon, sunday school, vengeance, wisdom, wrath

There’s a lot about the nature of our God revealed in the first little bit of Nahum (and it’s a very small book, so it wouldn’t hurt to go read it real quick – honestly, took me about seven minutes or so).
The first bit deals with some attributes of God that we post-modern folks [...]

Conditionally Speaking

There is nothing in us or done by us, at any stage of our earthly development, because of which we are acceptable to God. We must always be accepted for Christ’s sake, or we cannot ever be accepted at all. This is not true of us only when we believe. It is just as true after we have believed. It will continue to be true as long as we live. Our need of Christ does not cease with our believing; nor does the nature of our relation to Him or to God through Him ever alter, no matter what our attainments in Christian graces or our achievements in behavior may be. It is always on His “blood and righteousness” alone that we can rest. - BB Warfield