The Kingdom Come

This is a test of a few new audio players.  Please leave comments. The first mp3 player is the intro music to the Kingdom Commentaries podcast. This audio player is the most simple and allows me to turn any mp3 link into an audio player like this. The 2nd player will eventually replace the multi playlist player I had been using. Whereas the 3rd audio player takes a lot of over head but allows me more customization, maybe even playing wav, wma, and realaudio files and allows uploading of audios to the website. I will probably use all of these at different points.

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Psalm 84

The following is for friends and family who have recently made professions of Faith or those who are "giving religion a try".

What does it mean to "get saved"?  Saved from what?  Does it mean you won't go to hell when you die?  What happens when you are "saved"?  Do you suddenly start being a "good person"?  Do you start acting all churchy and religious?  When you "get saved", is there a list of "dos" and "don'ts" you suddenly must live by?

Well, first typically "getting saved" ISN'T something you just wake up one day and decide to do. 

So we heard about the state of the Union, but what is the state of theology today?  It is not a question to be asked by a politician but let each Christian ask him or herself.  Let us base it on the biblical principle of  2 Cor 13:5 and 2 Peter 1:10.  Is our theology a personal hodge-podge hobbled together or is it the faith of the community of saints?  Is our faith a weak, beggarly faith more apt to be part of the Oprah or Dr. Phil show?

In the 21st century, Christianity is under attack not only from secularism, but from enemies within the gates; people who claim to be Christian but uphold everything but historic Christianity.  Whether they are trying to make a "new kind of Christian", such as the Emergent/postmodernists have been attempting, or they fancy themselves as apologists or watchmen out to expose everyone and everything yet never seem to get around to applying 2 Cor 13:5 and 2 Peter 1:10 to themselves.

Every time Christians come together in a church, there is singing but why do we do it?  Is it merely to pump us up for the sermon?  And why do we sing the songs and hymns we sing?  Why do we sing the songs to the tunes we do?

So you have always wanted your own website, something beyond just a blog, but you think the setup will be too difficult?  Well, now here's your chance.  SITEGROUND, the hosting company for this website is offering to host new websites for only $9.95 for the first year.  But for visitors of TKC, I want to add to that.  If you register for a new website through THIS LINK, and use the Drupal CMS (just a way to run a website, which siteground provides), I'd be happy to answer a couple of your questions about setup.  FREE.  Just use the contact form or comment on this article.

WHY?

Now you're asking, "Why would Roderick do such a thing?".  Well, for each person that signs up via THIS LINK, I will get 1 month free hosting on my own website.  This way I help my readers and they help me, all the while everyone benefits.  Nope, no begging for "donations" or "love gifts" by TKC, never have and never will.

So, if you want to start your own website, now is the time.  My only caveat is that please do not use THIS LINK to setup a website site that would be opposed or objectionable to Christianity, otherwise my offer to help is off the table.  Thanks

Okay, I'll admit it, I'm a geek.  Well, I'm sort of a geek.  I began using the Internet when all the Internet was was a loose collection of college BBS's (bulletin board systems).  These were text-based, menu driven formats that looked like the screen shot below.

The commands to navigate from screen to screen were not always the same with each BBS.  And no, there were not any graphics, no pictures beyond "ASCII art" (see example #1, #2).  Joan Stark's work will live on forever!

Before I watched the movie, The Book of Eli (official website), I read a few one-sentence reviews/comments about it but didn't read any full reviews or synopsis.  I wanted to be as unbiased as possible.  However, the previews do make it look like a remake of Mad Max.

I'll try to review without revealing too much to spoil it.

With the massive earth quake of January 2010 striking the nation of Haiti many news sources have had leading stories about the dire struggle of the Haitian people.  There are heart-wrenching stories of the utter poverty of the nation even before the devastation.  One thing that seems to lack in all this coverage is the FACTS of how Haiti became so poor.  Most stories touch on Haiti's tumultuous political situation, having been under decades, perhaps centuries of dictatorial rule.  But the reports never seem to really get at the heart of the issue.

By psychosis I don't mean to imply Christians are crazy per se, after all I am a Christian and I hope I'm not crazy -- however as a humorous aside, how would a crazy person really know they are crazy?  Anyhow, by psychosis I do mean that many people who claim to be Christian do seem...well a bit odd.  I know, I know.  Define odd.  But I think most people know what I mean. 

Many Christians behave in an unstable or socially untenable manner. For example, many Christians while supposed to be well grounded in source-able biblical precepts are instead champions of vagaries.  Did I just prove my own point?