Hello world and greetings from Internet Land. Today, I was looking at a blog that is maintained by an acquaintance of mine and noticed something, a "tag cloud." I'll assume that tag clouds are a normal feature of Word Press, for I have no experience with the service. However, Blogger doesn't even have the option. This was slightly disappointing to me because I like the organization of tag clouds, or weighted lists as they are also called. However, being an avid "Googler," (as some have coined the term) I simply searched for "Blogger Tag Cloud Widget". For those unfamiliar with a widget, it is simply a bit of HTML code (and sometimes Javascript) that performs a special function like counting how many times a site is visited and displaying that count, or providing a clock feature on the site.
I clicked on the first link I found, and lo-and-behold, I found exactly what I was looking for. I was excited because this new widget allowed me to play with the HTML code of my two blogs, which is something I was looking for excuse to do. However, I found the step-by-step instructions very easy to follow. Even someone with little to no knowledge of HTML use this information. Now, not only do I have a fun little widget on both my blogs, but it gives me an excuse to write, which one needs while busy with school work.
Now, even though this is a terrible change of pace, and one of the worst transitions I have done in some time, it is time for a change of gears. (Wow, that was a mouthful and a nightmare of a sentence!)
Many people who go to at least a mid-size college or university has most likely heard of "Brother" Jed. Jed is not the kind of man I would like to see preaching the Word of God. The man spends a lot of time spewing hate doctrine and very little time speaking Truth. Rather than speak the Truth that can be offensive, Jed is simply offensive. After listening to his usual "you're all going to Hell" speech, I grew restless.
"Where is your love at Jed?" I asked him. Here was no real reply. Brother Jed spend the next several minutes calling down what I would say in reply to his questions. I told him he needed to preach in love. He ask me what love was. We (a girl in the crowd spoke up) gave him 1 Corinthians 13 for an answer. When I said he needed love in what he said, his reply was "Yeah, come to our Bible Study, we'll have s'mores and a 'hippie love fest.'" This man clearly has little to no foundation in the Truth of God's Word. He also spent a good amount of time trying to break down my character and basically "call me out." For instance, I pulled out my Bible (the own I use a lot of the time at any rate) and he said, "He carries his Bible, which is a good sign, a good start."
What Jed fully sees is that there is Wrath from God for the unbeliever. What Jed sees is Condemnation. However, Jed fails to realize that Jesus' message wasn't Condemnation, but Salvation. Jed believes he is sinless (which the Bible clearly states that only Jesus was without sin) and fails to see that what he is doing is wrong. The Bible tells believers to flee sexual immorality among other things. If we are made sinless, why would we need to flee something that wouldn't affect us? It's simple, we are not sinless, but freed from sin and are no longer slaves to it.
Other claims made by Jed are:
I clicked on the first link I found, and lo-and-behold, I found exactly what I was looking for. I was excited because this new widget allowed me to play with the HTML code of my two blogs, which is something I was looking for excuse to do. However, I found the step-by-step instructions very easy to follow. Even someone with little to no knowledge of HTML use this information. Now, not only do I have a fun little widget on both my blogs, but it gives me an excuse to write, which one needs while busy with school work.
Now, even though this is a terrible change of pace, and one of the worst transitions I have done in some time, it is time for a change of gears. (Wow, that was a mouthful and a nightmare of a sentence!)
Many people who go to at least a mid-size college or university has most likely heard of "Brother" Jed. Jed is not the kind of man I would like to see preaching the Word of God. The man spends a lot of time spewing hate doctrine and very little time speaking Truth. Rather than speak the Truth that can be offensive, Jed is simply offensive. After listening to his usual "you're all going to Hell" speech, I grew restless.
"Where is your love at Jed?" I asked him. Here was no real reply. Brother Jed spend the next several minutes calling down what I would say in reply to his questions. I told him he needed to preach in love. He ask me what love was. We (a girl in the crowd spoke up) gave him 1 Corinthians 13 for an answer. When I said he needed love in what he said, his reply was "Yeah, come to our Bible Study, we'll have s'mores and a 'hippie love fest.'" This man clearly has little to no foundation in the Truth of God's Word. He also spent a good amount of time trying to break down my character and basically "call me out." For instance, I pulled out my Bible (the own I use a lot of the time at any rate) and he said, "He carries his Bible, which is a good sign, a good start."
What Jed fully sees is that there is Wrath from God for the unbeliever. What Jed sees is Condemnation. However, Jed fails to realize that Jesus' message wasn't Condemnation, but Salvation. Jed believes he is sinless (which the Bible clearly states that only Jesus was without sin) and fails to see that what he is doing is wrong. The Bible tells believers to flee sexual immorality among other things. If we are made sinless, why would we need to flee something that wouldn't affect us? It's simple, we are not sinless, but freed from sin and are no longer slaves to it.
Other claims made by Jed are:
- His wife's "two offices are in the kitchen and in the bedroom"
- College "boys" should go into the military to become men, and are not really men if they haven't killed someone
- God's Wrath is His Love (a contradiction the Bible does not support)
- Kissing is "shameful" and will always lead, ultimately, to premarital sex (also not a Biblical idea)
- If you listen to rock music of any kind, you are going to Hell
