| I'm ending my time on Xanga - its become a stumbling block and it needs to end. If you still want to read my stuff go to My Primary Blog on blogspot.
see ya, xanga-land.
S.K. Schultz
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| I don’t mean substance as in a theology that has something to it.
I’m talking about something rather controversial within the church:
alcohol and tobacco. I grew up in a home where drinking and smoking
were wrong period. If you know me at all, you know that I enjoy a drink
as well as a good pipe or clove cigarette once in awhile. I did not
come to enjoy such things until I came to college – both after I had
come to the appropriate age. The
Bible does not address smoking at all but it has a lot to say about
drinking. Never does Gods word forbid someone from a drink but it has a
lot to say about those who become intoxicated. Here are a few examples: [Read More]
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| Over the past few weeks the following has happened:
1. I lost my job at KDCR.
2. I told that I was not allowed to live on campus for the month of august because of the above.
3. I was told that I would not be considered for a job on Dordt Security because of #1.
4. I am now living near campus thanks to the charity of Ron Rynders, who works in Student services .
Its all been a big headache but I thank God for Ron and his wife. May God bless them ten fold for their kindness to me.
Spiritually,
I've been rather dry as of late - I hate to make excuses and I
apologize if this sounds like one but school may have burned me out. I
have trouble just picking up the bible beyond Sunday service and the
only books that I have read all summer have been in the political
realm. Writing has also been tough; I sent off a few letters over the
summer and beyond the casual Facebook/MSN/Channel chatting I really
have written nothing thought provoking or spiritual.
I think my
biggest hurdle right now is the feelings of loneliness, inadequacy, and
futility. Numbers one, two, and three have deeply influenced those
feelings (as well as other things); I feel like I've failed, maybe I
have failed. I don't feel anywhere near to the kind of man I should be.
I feel bitter; not just over this whole ordeal, but just bitter in
general; I don't want to feel that way but I feel as if I can't let go,
I think I'm afraid to let go.
A lot of time went bye between now
and that last paragraph. There's so much inside that I'm thinking about
but I don't know how to write it all down or if I even should write it
down. Maybe I will later but for now let me just say that I covet your
prayers as I push on and struggle to keep faith and hope in times
frightening and unpredictable. A picture is unfolding, I just cannot
see it yet.
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| A big thanks to Dr. James R. White for his book Is the Mormon my Brother? The book was my primary source for quotes. This was my term paper for Heresies and Sects class here at Dordt College.
Mormonism The question was once settled: is the Mormon religion a Christian
one? I once asked a young Mormon that question and his reply was this:
“How can I not be a Christian? I worship Jesus, I read the bible; how
can I not be a Christian?” There are many who think that simply because
a religion has Jesus Christ and the bible included, it must fall under
the world’s wide umbrella of Christendom. The mindset of the culture is
if it looks like a rose and smells like a rose it must be a rose.
Mormonism does indeed look and sound
Christian in many aspects. I for one as a young child was fooled by the
LDS because of the advertisements on TV for their life of Jesus video.
Mormons will talk about Jesus Christ and will even claim Him as their
Lord and Savior but, as stated above, simply knowing Christianese
does not mean that you are a Christian. What is it that separates
Mormonism from Biblical Christianity? We do not have ample space to
discuss every single detail in full; people that are more knowledgeable
have written indeed entire books on the subject; I wish to center on a
doctrine that most separates Mormonism from Christianity: their
doctrine of God. [Read More]
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I
did not have the time to attend Gov. Romneys rally but I was able to
shake the mans hand just before he left. Gov. Romney is a professing
Mormon as you all probably know. The Lord granted me the wonderful
privelage of ministering to Gov. Romney by giving him a book writtnen
by a dear friend and brother in The Christ, Dr. James R. White; the book I gave him is called Is the Mormon My Brother?
Romney smiled when I gave him the book and handed it to an aid; please
pray that He reads it, please pray that God will draw Mr. Romney |
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