August 28, 2007

What are we acknowledging when ending our prayers in the name of Jesus? Jesus is the promised servant in Isaiah and the promised seed in Genesis. When you say "in Jesus" you are acknowledging God's promise achieved. "In Jesus' name amen" means to say God's promise of salvation has been completed, and we submit and pledge our lives to God's purpose.

August 27, 2007

The movie Evan Almighty is a silly idea of Noah and the Flood. The teaching of the Bible on the Flood is man had gotten so far away from God in wickedness, he was to be destroyed. The account of the Flood tells us more about the history of man than just his tendency toward sin. We have a general idea of the changed environment of the earth, of man's lifespan; never mind that the ark and its measurements were the first example of any watercraft of that size of its time.

But the movie turns the whole event into a humorous myth of only symbolic meaning. Forget the historical evidence of reality of thousands of people dying for rebelling against a holy God.

It is amazing how we as Christians want to fit in with our current world. We use movies like this to separate those who are too serious about the teachings in the Bible and those the world can trust to be their friends.