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might-be-don
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  		   Posted 9/30/2003 12:34 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Well... not directly.

Last nights showing of 7th Heaven has Lucy ( a ministerial student ) asking to borrow a copy of the Doc's "Letters from a Skeptic" during a scene set at the church office.

Who are these writers?

peace, don
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DLW
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  		   Posted 9/30/2003 1:15 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
It just goes to show that letters from a skeptic has begun a permanent feature of USAmerican Evangelicalism and, thus, providing far wider exposure for open-theism as well...

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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honorman
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  		   Posted 9/30/2003 2:20 PM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
For better or for worse...Tongue
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Tigress
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  		   Posted 10/1/2003 5:22 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Yyyyyyeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeehaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!Flame2

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Tiggers
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  		   Posted 10/1/2003 7:32 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Cool No Way, that's too cool Cool !
Piper & Co., has got to be Furious ...Yikes!

Warmly in Christ,
Tiggers

“The notion that God uses evils as a means to such higher goods is, … incompatible with the doctrine that he is omnipotent, and therefore does not need to use deplorable means to achieve his ends” (J.L. Mackie).

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BJS
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  		   Posted 10/2/2003 3:50 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
VERY cool!

Brett

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GregBoyd
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  		   Posted 10/2/2003 6:14 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
8.3 seconds in the sun. Ahhhh, now I can die a happy man.Big Smile

"The responsibility is with the chooser -- God is blameless." Plato, Republic, 10.

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DLW
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  		   Posted 10/2/2003 7:33 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Now its time to start pressing for my idea about a progressive-tax on movie advertisements so we can all enjoy "Letters-from-a-Skeptic:The Movie"...

Of course, we might have to jazz-it-up some...

ideas? Perhaps, we could fast-forward to Greg's persecution by the Committee of Concerned Pastors...

dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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Tigress
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  		   Posted 10/2/2003 7:52 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Would some of you please pray for a certain person I've been trying to reveal the Gospel to? He's a famous person and I'm thinking of sending him Letters From A Skeptic. But, I've written to him about five or six times and he's never responded (which is only logical since he doesn't know me or if I might just be some stalking fan, or something). Anyway, I sent him some Gospel tracts, and a tape of Greg Boyd's testimony that Greg gave in a chapel service at Bethel about seven years ago, when I went there. I also gave him a tape of a different person's testimony.

So, please pray that The Holy Spirit would soften his heart to the Gospel and of course that he and his wife and children would eventually accept Jesus. Thanks!

Tigress Tigress

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GregBoyd
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  		   Posted 10/3/2003 5:26 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
Okay, if I'm ever approached by Warner Bro's to do "Letters from a Skeptic: The Movie," I will INSIST that DLW is the producer.

Of course, if its going to be a Hollywood movie, as you noted, you'd have to spice it up some.... some sex somewhere, right?

But, given my Dad's pre-Christian life, that shouldn't be too hard without veering to much from the facts.

Greg

"The responsibility is with the chooser -- God is blameless." Plato, Republic, 10.

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DLW
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  		   Posted 10/3/2003 7:07 AM (GMT -6)    Quote This PostAlert An Admin About This Post.
quote:
Originally posted by GregBoyd

Okay, if I'm ever approached by Warner Bro's to do "Letters from a Skeptic: The Movie," I will INSIST that DLW is the producer.

Of course, if its going to be a Hollywood movie, as you noted, you'd have to spice it up some.... some sex somewhere, right?

But, given my Dad's pre-Christian life, that shouldn't be too hard without veering to much from the facts.

Greg


Well, I was thinking that it might help if, in the process of writing the letters back to your father, you were pursued by agent smiths,or cyborgs from the futureBorg1, and had to be rescued by Trinity and Neo...Eyebrow

You could at least have a dramatized reading done(condensing, perhaps, the part on textual-interpreation) to be put on tapes for others...
dlw

Niebuhr thought that sustained moral energy in politics depended on religion's power to mobilize reason along with self-transcending love. The prophetic tradition, meanwhile, gave Jews and Christians some protection against the temptation to identify their social causes with God's will. Lincoln's second inaugural address expressed the prophetic insight, "The almighty has His own purposes."

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