Going To Heaven Alone?


August 18, 2010 @ 9:35 PM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts "The highest form of selfishness is that of the man who is content to go to heaven alone." -J.C. Ryle

Do You Have Ugly Feet?


August 17, 2010 @ 9:29 PM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts

Romans 10:14-15

How then will they call on him in whom they have not believed? And how are they to believe in him of whom they have never heard? And how are they to hear without someone preaching? And how are they to preach unless they are sent? As it is written, “How beautiful are the feet of those who preach the good news!”

Some Christians feet are plain ugly. Many take the most humble part of their body and dress it up with nice shoes, but scripture says the way you do it is by preaching the good news.

Excuses, Excuses


August 6, 2010 @ 12:34 PM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts

A man is choking, but I'm not a doctor...

A kid is drowning, but I'm not a life guard...

A friend is about to kill himself, but I'm not a counselor...

A sinner is headed for eternal hell, but I'm not an evangelist...

Repent and be restored.

Something To Reckon With!


July 16, 2010 @ 11:52 AM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts

Has God called you to be a missionary to America?

Then why are you still here?

Missions Abroad


September 30, 2009 @ 11:50 AM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts

I wonder why so many Christians are so zealous to do missionary work abroad in some foreign land when they've never been missionaries at home. That doesn't make too much sense to me.

I would think that you would be burdened with the lost immediately around you, who I might add are easier to reach, before you would some foreign group you've never met.

My advice would be that if you don't proclaim the gospel where you are, don't even think of packing up and going to where you've never been. The former should be a huge qualification for the latter.

But then again, most modern missionary work is just "Peace Corp" work done with a Christian veneer anyway.

Autonomy: The Pride of Humanity


July 24, 2009 @ 9:50 AM EST | Category: Fishin' Thoughts

1 Corinthians 15:22 For as in Adam all die, so also in Christ shall all be made alive.

I hear evangelists say stuff like, "Tonight, it is your choice whether or not you go to hell. I cannot choose for you. You have to choose for yourself. Each man has to choose for himself."

My question is this-

How does someone have a choice on whether or not they go to hell when from birth they are headed there already? 1 Corinthians 15:22a says, "For as in Adam all die..." That is universal to the human race. Verse 22b says, "...so also in Christ shall all be made alive." This is particular to the elect children of God. In Adam all die, and unless you are not a homosapien and some alien life form, that includes you. God doesn't send someone somewhere they are already headed.

John 6:28 Then they said to him, “What must we do, to be doing the works of God?” 29 Jesus answered them, “This is the work of God, that you believe in him whom he has sent.”

Sounds like our autonomy has just been stripped away.