Re: [asa] The Hebrew for the Making of Man

Being that friend wife is a PCUSA minister, we are seldom home on
Sunday mornings. Yesterday, however, due to illness, we stayed home
and watched Joel Osteen from the Houston Lakewood Church. My sister in
Michigan hardly ever misses him.

Anyhow, he sounded a lot like the late Norman Vincent Peale. Nothing
in his sermon I could find to argue with although it was fairly
repetitious. Compared to most Presbyterian sermons I have heard there
was not a lot of "meat" in it.

Anyway -- he is not a "Hagee" or a Robinson or like any of the others
mentioned in this thread.

Burgy

On 2/4/08, Janice Matchett <janmatch@earthlink.net> wrote:
> At 03:22 AM 2/4/2008, Iain Strachan wrote:
>
> "You ain't seen nothing yet! On a business trip to the Indianapolis last
> week, I tuned in on my hotel TV to a channel called "Rejoice TV", where a
> suited preacher called Dr. Neal Jackson ...had got a mathematician to work
> out that there would have been 32 billion people born in the world since
> Adam. Then, taking some figures (from Ezekiel I think?) about the
> dimensions of Heaven, he figured out that if as many as half of humankind
> made it to heaven that they'd each have 210 square miles in God's mansion
> (with ceilings a mile high); a whole lotta real estate. I am not kidding -
> I actually saw this. That was followed by another preacher, I forget the
> name, preaching about "prosperity gospel", who seemed to have his
> congregation whipped up into some kind of frenzy, doing bunny hops across
> the floor and proclaiming "I'm never going to be in debt again!!". At this
> point I was sufficiently turned off to turn it off. Christianity in Britain
> seems a whole different religion as far as I can see. ~ Iain
> @ It appears as if you can't see very far. No mature Christian in America
> (or anywhere else) would think of tuning into any of the "Liars for Jesus"
> aka "Grifter TV" for spiritual edification.
>
> And talking about TV "grifters" (liars for Jesus experts when it comes to
> shearing dumb sheep), you ain't seen nothing yet! Floods, plagues,
> pestillence, divine vengence, judgement, guilt -- it's not a huge leap from
> fire and brimstone to environmentalism:
>
> "Unless we announce disasters, no one will listen" ~ Rev. Sir John Houghton
>
> I tuned in to a tax-payer funded, "Public Radio" program where a female from
> the group-think cloistered culture, by the name of Ms. Tippett, was
> interviewing a suited preacher called Reverend Richard Cizik who was
> talking about his conversion to .... get this: "the science of climate
> change" after he got a scientist -- and also a "Reverend" (from The Royal
> Society) -- who had worked out (with his computer models) that, climate
> change is a weapon, and like terrorism, knows no boundaries. It can strike
> anywhere in any form -- a heat wave in one place, a drought or a storm surge
> in another" and that humankind has a 50/50 chance of surviving the 21st
> century unless the US provides enough "love offerings" to stop that from
> happening. And this proselytizer in impressive flowing robes also told him
> that if anyone would dare go against the scientific consensus on climate
> change he would be dismissed as a denier; a heretic, and a worker for the
> Devil, ExxonMobil.
>
> I am not kidding - I actually heard this on public radio. And that was
> followed by another preacher, I forget the name, preaching about "aversion
> therapy", who seemed to have his congregation whipped up into some kind of
> frenzy after he showed them a movie entitled "Clockwork Green" - (which had
> distressing images of the projected ravages of "global warming"). I could
> hear him leading his congregation in a frenzied chant, "I'm never going to
> destroy the planet again!!"
>
> At this point I was sufficiently turned off to turn it off. Christianity on
> public radio seems a whole different religion as far as I can see.
>
> ~ Janice ... who feels impelled by the Spirit to give an even bigger love
> offerin' :) :
> http://www.freerepublic.com/focus/religion/1964460/posts?page=5#5
>
>
>

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Received on Mon Feb 4 12:26:06 2008