Thought Quotient

I found this story by doing some searching…it wasn’t easy.

Wal-Mart’s Salvation Army save

Wal-Mart announced that it will nationally match dollar for dollar the proceeds of all Salvation Army red kettles (up to 1 million dollars) beginning Thursday (12/16) through Christmas Eve.

I guess they feel the need to help pick up the slack from Target stores not allowing them outside of their stores this year. Also, these days it seems like ‘Wal-Mart bashing‘ is the next cool, trendy thing to do. I thought I’d counter all that with a little positive news.

That’s what happened recently on Pax-TV as they televised a debate between R. Albert Mohler Jr and John Shelby Spong on a program called “Faith Under Fire”…

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“And I’m not really interested in a God who works out salvation by killing the Son of God. I find that an act of divine child abuse that I’m not drawn to at all.” - Spong

“The whole question of why Jesus died and the meaning of Christ’s cross and of His resurrection … is the very core of the faith,” Mohler said. “…Christ died in our place as the Savior who died a substitutionary death, paying the price for our sins. That’s not something that has been held by some Christians in some places. That is the heart of Christianity as held by all.” - Mohler

To get a better idea on where Spong is coming from, here is an article on a group of scholars known as the Jesus Seminar of which he is a part…

The “Jesus Seminar”: The Quest for the “Imaginary” Jesus

Find the full article here…

‘Dolly’ Scientists May Clone Human Embryos

Ian Wilmut, who led the team which created Dolly, said it would be “immoral” not to use therapeutic cloning for stem cell research, which many scientists believe could help treat disorders such as motor neurone disease, Parkinson’s and diabetes.

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“Now I think we would all agree that humans at any stage of their life deserve respect,” Wilmut added. “But … because at this early stage the embryo does not have that key human characteristic of being aware, to me it would be immoral not to take this opportunity to study diseases.”

Let’s take a look back at ‘Dolly’ the cloned sheep in this BreakPoint article from March 19, 2003…
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If you haven’t tried it yet, try CLUSTY.com, a nice google alternative.

I’ve seriously found a lot of results I never found it ‘google’ (or any other search engine) for that matter.

Some links I’ve tried so far:
something like silas search and a alathea search.

Still in beta but impressive so far.

God never intended us to live the Christian life. We can’t do it. We never have done it. God is the only one who can live that life through us.

Galatians 2:20

I have been crucified with Christ and I no longer live, but Christ lives in me. The life I live in the body, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved me and gave himself for me.

We rely upon Him, trust in Him, and allow Him to live His life in and through us.

Will you go to your grave in the bondage of trying to please God, trying to perform, to live up to, and to be good enough to get His acceptance?

Romans 7-8

-Charles Stanley

We are born to make manifest the glory of God that is within us. It’s not just in some of us, it’s in everyone. And as we let our own light shine, we unconsciously give other people permission to do the same. As we are liberated from our own fear, our presence automatically liberates others.

-Nelson Mandela