Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Category: OPINION
Watching scenes of mass rioting in France with only a token resistance (I feel sorry for the police and emergency services sent out there) and the scenes and reports of hundreds of young Muslim men entering the United Kingdom every single day-upon a red carpet laid out by the government-I can't help being further confirmed in my conviction that the kingdom of "iron and clay" as spoken of in the book of Daniel is upon us. What's happening in our world is spiritual, not just political.
What impressed me most about Colin's drumming was his ability to control a band and to take it to great heights. He knew how to change the mood, he knew how to hold it all together, he knew how to save the day, he knew how to wow, and he knew how to push the music to a great climax. In many senses he was music.
The most recent video publication of "The American Gospel" does, for the most part, a service to the Church and the Word of God. However, I take exception to the episode used to preach Reformed theology, as though it were the gospel truth. To my mind this is an error almost as large as the one the video series attempts to address.
Perhaps the most complex and even unfathomable part of the universe is the human mind. It's my observation that the human mind-and I include my own in this indictment-is susceptible to delusion and illness in multiple forms. Our thinking can become warped or may have always been warped depending on our background and our influences.
Feelings are not faith, and as Paul declared, "Everything that does not come from faith is sin" (Romans 14:23). That's not to say that all feelings are sinful, but depending on them is. Feelings can be sensual, physical, temporal and fallible. They can be useful and wonderful tools and a great blessing, but they can also regularly get us into trouble. The antidote to this uncertainty is the Word of God.
