Here Paul goes with the circumcision thing again. Man, Paul talks about this a lot. Now I know that is was a huge deal that the Jews were circumcised cuz that was the sign that they were the chosen people of God, but seriously, that is a part of my life that I’m glad I [...]
BigCat’s Blog of DOOM
My name is Ben Catlin, and this is where I rock out on topics like my life, technology and faith.
Browsing Posts published in September, 2003
“You are all sons of God through faith in Christ Jesus, for all of you who were baptized into Christ have clothed yourselves with Christ. There is neither Jew nor Greek, slave nor free, male nor female, for you are all one in Christ Jesus. If you belong to Christ, then you are Abraham’s seed, [...]
This passage is about God’s saving grace, and about how legalism is bad. He isn’t knocking the Old testament, but he says that the law was showing us how to live until Gods full grace and love was expressed through Jesus. Q: What blessing is promised to us as Christians (vs. 14)? Take time now [...]
What a great passage. Very anti-legalistic. It reminds me that salvation doesn’t come from knowing the most scripture, or having the right side of a theological debate, but it comes from Christ dying for my sins, and the grace of God for providing his son as a sacrifice for me. Ok, now for questions. The [...]
So, before I answer the question I would like to say that I really love this passage. It is really cool because we see Paul coming back to Jerusalem to share with people the message he has been spreading to the Gentiles. I like that part because they say that some people try to tell [...]
So my church is doing this sermon/small group/devotional series called “Doin’ the Stuff.” And Lauren, James, and I decided that our small group will do the study that goes with the sermon series. Also they pass out a devotional with passages to go through and questions to think about. I decided that personally I would [...]
Well, as many of you know, monkeys are funny, but more importantly I thought my Dad might die on Tuesday, which isn’t funny. So this has caused me to think a good deal about how much it would suck to loose my Dad. It’s been hard, but I’ve been trying to think more about how [...]
My Dad just called and said that it was a false alarm and he was OK. The people at the springfield hospital looked at the CAT scan and said they thought it was a shadow from him moving or something. So they stuck something down his throat to get a better picture and said that [...]
My Dad just received the results of a CAT scan of his heart, and he has a dissected aorta. He is currently on his way to the hospital in Springfield. I’m gonna be heading that way in a little while to see what is going on. I’m very concerned because this is a very serious [...]
OK, so before I write anything that is actual value I would like to point out that even after uninstalling and deleting any remaining files for my blog posting client, and then reinstalling it after a reboot, my laptop cannot detect when I spell the word “again” as “agian”, which is probably my most common [...]
So I realized a couple of things. 1) I cannot write anything in a concise manner, and my verbosity often serves only to cloud any point I’m trying to make. 2) I read through all the message board pages on the topic that Dee Dubya Chang-alang-a-ding-dong posted a link to, and I have some thoughts [...]
Ok, so my books came that I ordered. That is totally cool…especially since one of them is a text book. The problem is that I’m at total idiot for buying books that I don’t have time to read that I really want to read. I opened up the package and it had “church history in [...]
I’m bored…..I should start getting ready to leave from Tice’s place, but I’m feeling far to lazy for that. Plus I need to ask my youngest brother when he is going back to his college, because I need to stop by on the way home and get his computer all up to snuff. Well, I [...]
