Keeping that flame alive

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hailsky — Mon, 14 Sep 2009 14:57:15 +0000

Well I am back but not on wordpress…I have made the move to a place I like better called tumblr. http://hailsky.tumblr.com/

I hope to see you all there

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hailsky — Tue, 18 Aug 2009 03:34:33 +0000

Guess whos back?

hailsky — Sat, 07 Mar 2009 20:22:33 +0000

I am back from a huge break from blogging. Get ready! Tell your neighbor, your mom, your grandmother,your sister,your brother, and your dog that I am back.

Sorry

hailsky — Fri, 05 Dec 2008 03:48:02 +0000

I am still not ready to write about the subjects I promised. Partialy because I am lazy. I promise they will be coming soon. While you are waiting I encourage you to check out my friend Zacks blog post about the emerging/emergent church: http://zackhensley.wordpress.com/2008/12/02/the-real-way-to-be-“missional”

Don’t worry I am back

hailsky — Mon, 01 Dec 2008 16:38:58 +0000

Sorry that I havent been posting. My best friend came back from college so I hung out with him for the past week. I will be posting on more of the subjects that i had previosly listed in the up coming days.

Here we go again..need your vote

hailsky — Thu, 20 Nov 2008 17:38:38 +0000

It has come to my attention that some people actually enjoyed my last few post and want me to continue writing them. So I want to know what you think. If you think I need to keep writing on these subjects let me know by commenting on this post.

I wanted to do posts on these subjects because it seemed like a lot of different people had a lot of different views. I was hoping that we could all learn something from each other and come away with a greater understanding on these topics.

If i continue I will be laying out some rules for commenting and responses to comments. Here they are:

Never comment in your anger
Don’t mock or judge someones view. If you think its wrong ask them about it. Maybe you could learn something.
Try and stick to the commenting on the posts subject. Don’t throw a random subject in there.

So there they are the 3 rules I want you to follow. The main one being rule #2. I was happy in my post about abortion when Jason genuinely asked a question about someones view. Unfortunately no one has answered him yet.

Anyway, lets get to it. If you want me to keep writing leave a comment on this post

Here we go final post

hailsky — Wed, 19 Nov 2008 18:21:45 +0000

Final post??!?!?!? I know. I promised I would be writing about a few more topics. A good friend made me realize today that no good fruit was coming out of the conversations on these topics. It caused arguments and really did no good at all for anyone.

In all honesty the main point of writing on these topics was because there was so much confusion on these topics in the Christian world. Unfortunately writing on these topics just ended up with more arguing about them and causing even more confusion. My hearts desire is to see the church move in power and be in one accord. We don’t need to agree on everything and we probably never will.

We can agree on one thing though: We need more of Jesus and we need to live a life like he lived. It is time that we put our differences aside and work together and bring Jesus to this lost and dying world. So lets get out there. The world needs us. People need us. A generation needs us. The unborn babies need us.

We all have different callings.

If you hate abortion and think it’s murder get out there and pray and do as much as you and go the distance to get abortion ended.
If you have a heart for this generation go out and witness. Think of ways to bring them into church cause the younger generation is getting distracted by so many other things
If you have a heart for the lost. Don’t just sit there. Get out there and do things. Be willing to risk your life to spread the good news of Jesus Christ.

In the past few posts I really didn’t get to make a strong point or express myself well. I am not going to let that happen again in this post. My MAIN POINT is: We have differences but lets put those aside and bring love of Christ to this lost and hurt world.

here we go part 3!!!!

hailsky — Mon, 17 Nov 2008 21:21:55 +0000

Well this is part 3 of my maybe 5 part series. The topics I am writing about are:

* The sovereignty of God
* Abortion, War, the poor
* Judgment
* What should the Church do in this hour
* Does voting for Obama make me a non-Christian

Today I am going to write about probably the most controversial subject on the list.Abortion,war,and the poor. This is going to be a hard one for me to write but I am going to try and express my views and the bibles view as best as I can. So lets start on writing about abortion. Here we go:

First of here are my views on abortion-I hate it. I can’t stand it. It is murder and as America we have murdered 50 million babies and counting. It is very wrong and I pray for the ending of abortion everyday. I personally will never vote for a candidate who expresses pro choice views. It is my personal conviction and I will never choose money over my morals. With all that said though other people don’t have the same morals as I do and don’t feel as convicted about abortion as I do and I’m not calling them sinners for thinking/voting that way.

The problem I have is that abortion has been placed in many evangelicals churches as the #1 sin. God views sin as sin from the smallest to the biggest. I do believe that America needs to repent, but not just repenting of killing innocent babies but repenting of all of the sins. I guess my questions to you the reader are:

When did abortion become the number 1 sin?
Are there other ways to stop abortion other than just voting a pro-life candidate in?
What about the life after birth. Should we do more to help people who are in need of help? We are Pro life right? shouldn’t that mean all stages of life?

I see a problem when we put abortion over the main point of the gospel. Jesus said go and tell the world about me. Heal the sick. Raise the dead. I personally will try and be a witness to everyone and try and save every life from spending eternity in hell. I am going to be pro life in everything I do. Helping the poor, helping the oppressed, praying against and trying to find ways to stop abortion. To call me apathetic for not being as hard core about abortion as some people are is not right. I am doing all I can to spread the good news of Christ. Abortion is heavy on my heart but its not the main issue. Saving the world from hell is what I am all about doing. It’s the main point of the bible.

Lets be pro life in all aspects. Lets not forget what the main point of the Gospel was. Also lets not cast away other ideas on how to stop abortion

Here we go part 2

hailsky — Wed, 12 Nov 2008 19:25:50 +0000

I promised that I would write about some topics this week and not just give my view but give the Biblical view on them. Those topics are:

* The sovereignty of God
* Abortion, War, the poor
* Judgment
* What should the Church do in this hour
* Does voting for Obama make me a non-Christian

If you are good reader you would have noticed that in my first post of this list I had not put “Judgement” on the list. I did however felt it was needed to express what I thought about God’s Judgment and what the I believe the Bible says about it. WARNING: If you don’t agree with what I say let me know about it. Well here we go:

In the days after the election I began reading prophecies about the judgment that God is going to pour out on America. I read them and thought “Wow God must be an angry person”. If I am Christian and thought that God was angry after reading those judgment messages I can’t imagine what unbelievers would think about God if they read those.

We have to be careful on how we portray God to unbelievers. In Exodus 20 the Israelites were complaining because they had no water to drink. God told Moses to speak to a rock and the water would come forth. Moses went out in front of all of Israel and said “You rebels shall we now bring forth water out of this rock” then he struck it(smote it in some versions, i like the word smote) twice and water came forth. Was it a miracle? Yes. But God wasn’t happy with Moses. Why? Because he portrayed God as an angry God and because of that Moses was not allowed to enter the promise land. Moses acted out and spoke out in his own anger and not in Gods. We cannot portray God as angry when He is not.

I believe there is a Judgement day coming it will be great and terrible. What I want you to understand that I believe that it is a “Day”. There is a punishment for sin but that happens in the end. It’s going to be great for us believers and terrible for the unbelievers. Until then though I think bad things are going to happen because we took on a sinful nature when Adam ate the apple. The rain falls on the just and the unjust. Things are going to get worse before they get better but call that Gods judgment is unnecessary. It’s basically a faithless prophecy because we know things are getting worse.

In the Old Testament the prophets had a doom and message because there was no real sacrifice for sin and they were in the old covenant. Luckily Jesus came and when He died on the cross His blood redeemed us and His grace covers the multitude of sins.

Is abortion wrong? Yes it is very wrong and we will reap what we sow. If you notice it never said you will reap in judgement what we sow. What are we reaping fro killing 50 million babies? Well for one the Bible says children are a reward so we are missing out on 50 million rewards walking around in the United states. Is their blood crying out to God? Yes, but there is a better blood and it is Jesus’ blood. I hate abortion and so does God, but will He in His wrath judge us? I don’t believe so. God is a good God and in the end His wrath will be poured out. Right now though God is holding out His judgment for our sake.

We need to watch how we portray God to the world. They are never going to get saved when they have a picture of an angry judging God that’s ready to punish us when we make mistakes. We need to watch out that we don’t speak things in our own anger and portray them as God’s words

If you want to hear a great sermon about God’s judgement by Kris Vallotton CLICK HERE. It is amazing

Here we go part 1

hailsky — Tue, 11 Nov 2008 19:15:51 +0000

I promised that I would write about some topics this week and not just give my view but give the Biblical view on them. Those topics are:

The sovereignty of God
Abortion, War, the poor
Judgment
What should the Church do in this hour
Does voting for Obama make me a non-Christian

I picked the easiest one of those to answer first: Does voting for Obama mean I am not a Christian?

Absolutely not! Never in the Bible did it say that if you vote for a certain man that you would be sent to hell. To even think that I have to write on this topic makes me sad. Voting for a Republican does not make you a Christian either. I think it’s time that we as evangelical Christians stop putting are hopes in a Republican and put our hope in God.

You are a christian because you chose in your heart to follow God and you are currently living a life that meets up with the Bible. I think it is wrong for us as believers to judge one another by who we voted for. That’s Gods job not ours. There will be Obama supporters in Heaven and I am praying that Obama himself will be there to.