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"Contemplation is the highest expression of one's intellectual and spiritual life. It is
that life itself, fully awake, fully active, fully aware that it
is alive. It is spiritual wonder. It is spontaneous awe at the sacredness of life, of being." --Thomas Merton (1919-68) in
Seeds of Contemplation
Allow Me to Briefly Introduce Myself...
My name is John.
I grew up in a small Missionary Baptist Church in North Georgia. My experiences there played a pivotal role in the direction my life has taken. At the tender age of twelve I "walked to the altar" and gave my life and heart to God. That commitment was real and, to the best
of my ability, I've tried to live up to it. Over the years I've stumbled of course -- I still do from time to time -- yet the kernel of faith which God planted in my heart during that Wednesday night prayer meeting at
Harrell Grove Missionary Baptist Church continues to produce fruit in my life.
I've written extensively about my early experiences with God. Including these:
Today I consider myself to be a servant of the One True God. I believe that the God of Abraham called out and blessed the peoples of the three great religions that sprang from Him: Judaism, Islam and Christianity. I further believe that the people who take shelter in the teachings of Moses, Jesus and/or Muhammad are following higher Paths than those of other systems. Nonetheless, God's Grace doubtless flows to all who call upon Him and the Holy One is ever merciful and ready to forgive. I further believe that He is the God of all the earth and is far more understanding of we wayward children that we are sometimes led to believe by our teachers. Surely a righteous and devout Vaisnava, for instance, will not be cast aside while a hypocritical and lieing Christian, Muslim or Jew will be accepted by the Beloved (consider Micah 6:8). I discuss this issue in more detail elsewhere.
With this preface out of the way, I welcome you to AllFaith.com's Christianity Section.
Interactive Conversations in Christianity
Go to: Conversations in Religion
Our interactive Religious Discussion Boards.
Specifically,
Go to: Conversations in Christianity
My Writings on Christianity
Here's the Bible Gateway Program.
Click and leave this window open for easy access to the various verses cited in these studies.
Go to: Do We Need The Bible?
Go to: How To Trap God:
- The Prayer That Jesus Taught Us
Go to: Grace: Its Free But It Ain't Cheap
- What is Grace? How does one attain it? Why should one care?
Go to: Good News!
- Is the Gospel Good News? It May Not Seem Like It!
Go to: Baptized by Water and by Fire
- Understanding the Baptism in the Spirit
Go to: Be Human First
- Spirituality requires us to stay "real"
Go to: Walking With The Master
- A Three Part Series on what it means to walk with Jesus
Go to: The Absolute Otherness of Christ, Part one
Go to: The Absolute Truth of Christ, Part two
Go to: Understanding the Lord's Prayer
Go to: "I have many things to tell you..."
- ... Can we bear then now?"
Go to: The Holy Trinity
- A Three Part Series on the triune nature of God
Go to: The Nature and Person of YHVH Elohim, Part One.
Go to: The Nature and Person of Messiah Yeshua, Part Two
Go to: The Nature and Person of Ruach haKodesh, Part Three
Go to: The Prophesied One
- Was Jesus the Messiah? How can we know for sure?
Go to: Practical Christianity
- Applying the teachings of Jesus to daily life
Go to: Hate Crimes and Jesus
Go to: What I Learned From Star Wars Episode 1
- Star Wars, homelessness, hypocrisy and more!
Go to:
Reaching for the One
- For more of my writings on various subjects
Other Christian Resources
Byzantine Catholicism
: Byzantine Catholic Metropolia of Pittsburgh Bishops and Eparchies
Branch Davidian Christianity
I am not now, nor was I ever a follower of David Koresh. This section is included here for two basic reasons:
In 1993:
1. The Branch Davidians paid for their faith in God with their lives and I honor that;
2. The US government's unjustifiable assault on and mass massacre
of this religious community was an attack on the First Amendment
rights of all Americans. Despite this, Janet the Butcher Reno and
the others responsible for this shameless premeditated murder
went free. We should remember this atrosity.
May we never forget Waco!
May we never forget Ruby Ridge!
May we never surrender our precious freedoms!
(Its almost, but not quite, too late now!)
Frontline: Waco - The Inside Story
- The Inside Story, provides the most evenhanded, comprehensive site. It includes a Who's Who and chronology of
the standoff.
Waco Never Again!
The goal of this web page is to allow you to have access to the most comprehensive list of original source material available on David Koresh and the Branch Davidians. The resources found here are from my personal archives compiled from over eight years of research. In addition to the original source material you will also find links to some of the most informative Waco Web Sites on the Internet.
Introduction to the Branch Davidians
A good place for source material on the teachings of this Adventist group.
Lots of Waco Links from Yahoo
Fundamentalist Christianity
The King James Only Debate
Sojourners Of The Lord:
Which is the best (or even the "real") translation of the Bible? A translation is still only a translation. Unfortunately, even
those who read Hebrew, Greek, and Aramaic do not have the ability to read the Bible as it was originally written because
there are NO ORIGINAL MANUSCRIPTS.
Does this matter? There are those who believe and teach that in a very special way God has preserved the WORD in the
King James (or Authorized) Version as no where else. Much of Fundamentalist Christianity accepts this doctrine (not
all). Here's a site which intelligently argues in favor of the King James Only Position. They offer a fair amount of
evidence to support their position. There are also several links provided for more study.
Personally, I love the KJV. Its my version of choice without question. It is not however, in my understanding, a
flawlessly accurate nor perfectly preserved version of the first century texts (nor of their predecessors). Also, the KJV
which 99.9% of its adherents use today (including myself) IS NOT the 1611 KJV. Even those in the King James Only
Camp are using later versions for the most part.
Inclusive Christianity
GO to:
Grace Inclusive
Here the topic of homosexuality and the Bible is discussed in detail. Does the Bible really condemn committed, monagamous same gender marraiges? You may be surprised!
Go to: The Official
domain of Marsha Stevens and BALM Ministries:
- Marsha is an incredibly gifted Christian song writer, performer and minister. She has been called "the Mother of Contemporary Christian Music, having written the first contemporary Christian song, "For Those Tears I Died" aka "Come To The Water" (3.7MB MP3 file). She is also an openly lesbian Christian.
- I am honored to be her friend!
Beloved Disciples Press:
Publishes works for gay and lesbian Christians with an emphasis on spirituality and activism. They are non-denominational and non-sectarian.
The Evangelical Network.
- a network of Bible believing churches, ministries, Christian workers and individuals bound together by a common shared faith, united in purpose and witness and established as a positive resource and support for Christian gays and lesbians
Rev.
Mel White's Justice Net:
- For thirty-five years, The Rev. Dr. Mel White struggled to "overcome" his homosexual orientation through prayer, fasting, various aversive therapies, exorcism, and even electric shock. A victim of misinformation and biblical misuse, Mel thought his same-sex orientation was a sickness and a sin. During those "closet years" Mel served the Christian church as a prize-winning television producer and filmmaker, a best-selling author, a pastor, seminary professor, and ghost writer to religious leaders including Billy Graham, Pat Robertson, and Jerry Falwell.
Jehovah's Witnesses
: This is
the Official Web site of Jehovah's Christian Witnesses and the Watchtower Bible and Tract Society.
Orthodox Christianity
Inspired Orthodox Christian Icons.
Roman Catholic Christianity
The Official
Home Page of the Vatican.
Christus Rex et
Peace and Justice Doesn't Just Happen!!
First they came for the Communists, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Communist.
Then they came for the Jews, and I didn't speak up, because I wasn't a Jew.
Then they came for the Catholics, and I didn't speak up, because I was a Protestant.
Then they came for me, and by that time there was no one left to speak up for me.
--- Words of wisdom from Rev. Martin J. Niemoller in 1945
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