Brrrrrr, it’s cold…

Nothing like yesterday being 60 and today it is 19 degrees.  When I left the house this morning at 4:50 am, it was still warm and 52 degrees out.  When I left my group at 7:00 am, it had already dropped to 39 degrees.  Now the snow has finally stopped and the sun is trying to come out, but it is still around 19 degrees.

Today in group we talked about the 2nd chapter in Desiring God by John Piper.  John Piper is a self proclaimed Christian Hedonist.  He invented the term Christian Hedonist, back before writing the book Desiring God in 1986.  I don’t care for his writing, but I am trying to keep an open mind on things.  I noticed throughout this whole chapter that he has contradicted himself several times.  From chapter 1 he talks about predestination and that is how it is.  I thought God gave us a free will.   Then you have in chapter 2 where he says that “We not only choose to sin; we are sinful.”  Isn’t that part of the whole free will thing? Here is some stuff that I found and about predestination vs. freewill.   “Besides the verses that tells us directly to make choices, there are hundreds of verses that tell us how we are to live. Obviously, following this advice requires free will and the ability to choose. So, the Bible indicates pretty clearly that we are to make choices. If everything is predestined, then choice is not possible.“  Well, that just sums it up for me.  Then there is one paragraph in the book that has really bothered me.  Let me know what you think of it.  “Not everybody is saved from God’s wrath just because Christ died for sinners.  There is a condition we must meet in order to be saved.  I want to try to show that the condition, summed up here as prepentance and faith, is conversion and that conversion is nothing less than the creation of a Christian Hedonist.”   So to me it is saying that the only way to Christ is to be a Christian Hedonist.  Then throughout the book he keeps saying that Christ died for sinners.  I know we are all sinners, but Christ died for ALL.  Why not just put Christ died for all? 

I better just stop.  I will just get myself irritated again.

Lunch was really good today.  I went out to lunch today with the Land development team for our “Post” Christmas lunch.  We went to Nick & Jakes in Parkville and I had the Smothered Chicken with Garlic Linguine.  It was very good.  The best part was that it didn’t cost me a thing.

Well, I’m going to go.  It is about time to head home.  XOXOXO

Today’s Bible verse is:

Mark 9:35

“God is spirit, and his worshipers must worship in spirit and in truth.”