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Quick Update

Hey y’all, hope you’re all cool. For those of you wondering where I’m at, here’s a little update on the last four or five days. On Saturday evening, I fell down a flight of stairs down at Grandma’s. I felt fine to begin with, but come Sunday morning, I started having these terrible headaches. Turns out I was mildly concussed, and the headaches were a result of that.

These headaches have been mightily crippling to say none the least, to the point where I can only get up for a couple hours each day before cringing in pain. Needless to say, it’s affected the rate at which I blog. Thus, until I’m feeling better, I’m giving myself a rest from the computer screen in order to get better. Rest assured, I will be back with part 2 of the teaching on tithing, as well as a review of shai linne’s album The Atonement.

I will still be responding to comments, but just not writing at length.

 

Peace,

Doug

Where’s Tithing Part 2???

Well, this afternoon I addressed a group of guys and girls from my old church about the Lakeland Revival. It was very productive, and I can only pray that the words, clips and soundbites I played for the folks took root up in ‘em and they’ll start searching the Scriptures. As many of you might know, I pre-write all my serial posts, and preparing to speak with 3 hours prep time in advance threw an spanner in the works.

Needless to say, folks are waiting for the next part of this series, so I promise to have it up for Sunday evening. I would do it on Saturday, but I have a special surprise for Saturday. What is it? Wait and see!

Douglas K. Adu-Boahen aka the Young Calvinist

Dealing with SaWL Sufferers

I saw this on the DefCon blog in a comment and just had to share this on the blog. If you know someone who is a follower of the Bentley revival, then this might just help you out.

Dr. Yehshua’s Seven-Step Program for Sufferers of Bentley SaWL Disorder

1. Get a Bible. (This must be a mainstream orthodox version like KJV or NAS. NWT, or others like it, won’t work.)
2. Pray that God’s Spirit will open your eyes to the truth as you read His Word.
3. Open the Bible.
4. Read the Bible.
5. Think about what you read and continue to ask God to reveal to you His truth.
6. Re-read the Bible.
7. Keep reading until you’ve read the whole Bible.

If the above steps didn’t seem to work, trying answering these questions.

1. Are you reading a Bible that you can understand? (e.g. English-only readers should get an English translation, not Chinese.) *

2. Are you trying to read the Bible upside-down? To fix this turn it over - no, not so that you’re looking at the back of it.

3. Are you trying to “READ IN TONGUES”? You may have been convinced by other SaWLites that this is a gift of yours, but the Bible doesn’t mention it. So try to read the Bible as plainly as you think a non-SaWL person would.

4. Are you waiting for a visitation in which an angel will read it for you? God gave you eyes, a brain, language, and for most of you, the ability to reason. Use them.

5. Do you have an “enhanced” version of the Bible? Are there more than 66 books? Are there pages torn out? Has someone marked through some verses or rewritten them? This is common with SaWL sufferers, Roman Catholics, Watchtower followers, Mormons, et. al. You will need to get a new Bible. I would suggest a KJV or NAS.

Now return to Step 2 of the program and try it again.

* If you’ve read your Bible but still can’t understand it, place your hand on the pages. Do you feel hundreds of tiny little bumps beneath your fingers? If so, you have been trying to read a Braille Bible. Someone played a trick on you when you told them you were a SaWL sufferer. They gave you a Bible for the blind. Go back and get another one.

Hope that helps. Remember that recovery is a life-long journey of one-day trips, each taken one at a time.

God be with you.

My thanks to Cruci-Fide for permission to use this material

116 Clique to Visit UK!!!

It’s official - my four favourite rappers are all hitting the UK on tour. These guys have a knack for taking Biblical truth and putting in a style that is accessible and to be honest, downright fun. At the moment, only the Birmingham concert has been confirmed, but I’ll keep y’all UK folks posted as things develop.

If you are [strangely] unfamiliar with who or what the 116 Clique are, here are some of their videos:

Is Tithing Required for the New Testament Church? Part 1

First off, a big shout goes out to my brother Andrew Clerebout, who brought it up in conversation when we were on PalTalk. I have never put this into writing before, so this should interesting.

As you can already see, I want to deal with the question: Is tithing required for the New Testament Church? Now bear in mind that I grew up a Pentecostal. In my church, if you didn’t tithes, the following observations were made about you [all of which were wrong]:

1. You’re a greedy moron who hates God
2. You’re unsaved
3. You hate the church

Now, growing up and never having a job which paid well [the money from my paper round didn't stretch far enough...], I felt the guilt which comes from not paying “God his tithe”. Then I studied the Scriptures and came across some interesting facts about giving which cannot be ignored. Thus, I’m beginning a teaching series here on the blog looking at the issue of tithing and New Covenant giving. Today, I want to explain my thesis for this series, as well as some preliminary issues.

Here is my thesis:

THE PRACTICE OF TITHING IS NOT MANDATED IN THE NEW TESTAMENT SCRIPTURES, AND IN FACT, THE PRACTICE OF TITHING WE HAVE IN CHURCHES TODAY DOESN’T MATCH WITH THE OLD TESTAMENT MODEL.

Now I am not alone in this belief. My brother Alan did a post on this which was short but hit all the bases we’re going to cover in this series. Dr. Russell Earl Kelly, a Southern Baptist, has written an epic book called Should the Church Teach Tithing?, which I recommend, and will use extensively in this series. A brother by the name of George W. Greene has done a video series called The Truth About Tithing.

I will also like to say this. Churches have numerous reasons why they would teach tithing:

1. Tradition - “We’ve always done it this way, so why change?”
2. Greed - I’m talking to you, Word of Faith bunch! Tithing increases your chance of that lucrative blessing…NOT!!!
3. Stigma - If you don’t tithe, it supposedly says a great deal about you as a Christian - none of which is good.

No matter the reason we tithe, it is incumbent on us to study this out, so I hope you will join me for this series of studies regarding tithing and giving.

I Saw This and It Made Me Angry!

I saw this video and it ticked me off.

This should enough evidence that Bentley is not of God

HT: DefCon

I Just Had to Share With This With Y’all

It’s been an eventful weekend - including falling down a flight of stairs and ending up mildly concussed. In need of such much needed lightness, I found this on YouTube:

I feel a lot better now. True say, when I got the new Trip Lee album [review here], I did something similar with a DVD HandyCam - which will never see daylight…I think. LOL

Doctrine of the Trinity Part 1 - Bro. Moses Flores

Our brother on YouTube, Moses Flores also known as prchdaword is starting a teaching series on the Trinity. Here is part 1 of the teaching series. God willing, tomorrow I will post part 2.

P.S. You can check out his Geocities website here

Calvinism on the Couch Part 2 - K. Joel Gilliard aka BlackCalvinist

God willing, Part 3 won’t be too far off [nudging Bro. Kerry LOL] . Bro. Kerry’s ministry, Theologically Correct, can be found right here