<![CDATA[Rhema Ministries]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html en-us Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20:00 GMT <![CDATA[Entry for July 10, 2009]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=316

Thanks to all of you who have followed my blog here at Yahoo 360.

Love,

Rod

]]> Fri, 10 Jul 2009 20:20:00 GMT <![CDATA[Entry for February 21, 2009]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=312 02/21/2009

To Whom It May Concern:

I have ended my association with Patti G. It never ceases to amaze me how a supposedly mature woman could be soooo out of touch with her emotions? Are there no women whose actions align with their words? Actions speak louder than words. Is it intrinsic to meeting someone on the Internet that speaks to 5 out of 5 negative experiences with women? I suspect that it speaks to our cultural crisis in America. " Are all men narcissistic, assholes and all women idiots?" Maybe I'm expecting way to much out of a relationship? Honesty, sincerity, openness, transparency, emotional availability, trustworthiness, loyalty, and a distinct lack of self-absorbency.

Disappointed and disgusted,

Rod Woods

]]> Sat, 21 Feb 2009 20:51:56 GMT <![CDATA[The Apostle John]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=310 John: 90 Days with the Beloved Disciple
By
Beth Moore
Nashville: BHPublishing Group, (c) 2008
www.BHPublishingGroup.com

" This latest book by Beth Moore will show you what it looks like when strength and sensitivity come together in the same heart, and how Jesus can take everything you are- and everything you've been- and turn you into something special. Better come inside, There's a 'son of thunder' approaching."

BHPGroup, (c) 2008

]]> Fri, 30 Jan 2009 23:04:06 GMT <![CDATA[Saint John of Damascus]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=306
"A masterful apologetic in defense of holy icons as it relates to the Christian faith written in AD 728."- R. Alan Woods, Rhema Rising Press
In AD 726, the Byzantine emperor ordered the destruction of all icons, or religious images, throughout the empire, and icons were subject to an imperial ban that was to last, with a brief remission, until AD 843. A defender of icons, St John of Damascus wrote three treatises against "those who attack the holy images." He differentiates between the veneration of icons, which is a matter of expressing honor, and idolatry, which is offering worship to something other than God
Preview this book
Three Treatises on the Divine Images: Three Treatises
By John of Damascus
Translated by Andrew Louth
Published by St Vladimir's Seminary Press, (c) 2003
ISBN 0881412457, 9780881412451
]]> Wed, 21 Jan 2009 21:24:11 GMT <![CDATA[Entry for January 15, 2009]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=305

Neglecting the commandment of God, you hold to the tradition of men.… You are experts at setting aside the commandment of God in order to keep your tradition.

(Mark 7:8–9

nasb)]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:28:23 GMT <![CDATA[Entry for January 15, 2009]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=304

Thus you nullify the word of God for the sake of your tradition.

(Matt. 15:6)

]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:26:50 GMT <![CDATA[Rethinking Church Community and Practices]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=302 This is an excerpt from Frank Viola's book, "Reimagining Church"- www.ptmin.org .

"the Trinity is the paradigm for the church’s native expression. Beloved theologian Shirley Guthrie unfolds this concept by describing the relational nature of the Godhead:

'The oneness of God is not the oneness of a distinct, self-contained individual; it is the unity of a community of persons who love each other and live together in harmony.… They are what they are only in relationship with one another…. There is no solitary person separated from the others; no above and below; no first, second, third in importance; no ruling and controlling and being ruled and controlled; no position of privilege to be maintained over against others; no question of conflict concerning who is in charge; no need to assert independence and authority of one at the expense of the others. Now there is only fellowship and communion of equals who share all that they are and have in their communion with each other, each living with and for the others in mutual openness, self-giving love, and support; each free not from but for the others. That is how Father, Son, and Holy Spirit are related in the inner circle of the Godhead.

' "]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 23:18:00 GMT <![CDATA[Rethinking Church Community and Practices]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=300

The ministry of the Holy Spirit has ever been to reveal Jesus Christ, and revealing Him, to conform everything to Him. No human genius can do this. We cannot obtain anything in our New Testament as the result of human study, research, or reason. It is all the Holy Spirit’s revelation of Jesus Christ. Ours is to seek continually to see Him by the Spirit, and we shall know that He—not a paper-pattern—is the Pattern, the Order, the Form. It is all a Person who is the sum of all purpose and ways. Everything [in the early church] then was the free and spontaneous movement of the Holy Spirit, and He did it in full view of the Pattern—God’s Son.

T. Austin-Sparks]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:47:30 GMT <![CDATA[Reimagining Church]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=298

A truth’s initial commotion is directly proportional to how deeply the lie was believed. It wasn’t the world being round that agitated people, but that the world wasn’t flat. When a well-packaged web of lies has been sold gradually to the masses over generations, the truth will seem utterly preposterous and its speaker a raving lunatic.

—Dresden James]]> Thu, 15 Jan 2009 22:42:58 GMT <![CDATA[Rethinking Church Community and Practices]]> http://geocities.com/rhemarodaw/blog.html?p=296 A MUST read for every "thinking" Christian:
Banks, Robert. "Paul's Idea of Community". Peabody, MA: Hendrickson, 1994.
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