A Whale of a Tale...

I can't even come up with words. And that's saying something!!!

Pet Peeve

I woke early this morning to this in my Inbox >>>






If I have one pet peeve that I can't seem to get over it's email hoaxes and urban legends. It's not the literal hoax/legend itself that really bothers me, it's the people that continue to spread it around as the truth, especially if that person proclaims to be a Christian.

What disappoints me most about this is that it literally takes minutes to investigate these things on the internet. Here are just a few sites that have already debunked this one...

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Well_to_Hell_hoax

http://www.snopes.com/religion/wellhell.asp

http://www.truthorfiction.com/rumors/d/drilltohellfacts.htm

http://www.freebase.com/view/en/well_to_hell_hoax

Make no mistake about it ~ hell is real ~ but this is totally false. And quite honestly if someone preaches the Truth of the Gospel, plain and simple, the rest will fall into place.

~~Jesus Wants the Rose~~

Jesus Wants the Rose is the title to this video but I thought a more appropriate name could be something like... The Missing Point of the Gospel.

Somehow the sum of the Gospel message is getting lost. The beautiful essence of His Truth is being contaminated with the need for more, bigger, better, etc. I could use more adjectives but I hope you get my point.




We might view this broken useless rose as garbage but God does not...

When we were utterly helpless, Christ came at just the right time and died for us sinners. 7 Now, most people would not be willing to die for an upright person, though someone might perhaps be willing to die for a person who is especially good. 8 But God showed his great love for us by sending Christ to die for us while we were still sinners. 9 And since we have been made right in God’s sight by the blood of Christ, he will certainly save us from God’s condemnation. 10 For since our friendship with God was restored by the death of his Son while we were still his enemies, we will certainly be saved through the life of his Son. 11 So now we can rejoice in our wonderful new relationship with God because our Lord Jesus Christ has made us friends of God. Romans 5:6-11 (NLT)

He's right. We are the Rose and God wants us ~ even when no one else does.