The Pastor’s Pen
The Official Blog of Ted Haggard
Finding Truth
As a society, we used to embrace the idea that mob rule and lynching without a rational and reasonable due process was not the way to determine truth and dispense justice, but that view has been overruled with our advocacy press corps, shared ignorance on social media, and the politicization of truth.
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A Brief Exhortation on Faith
Biblical faith in God is much more powerful than our human abilities. It’s more than positive thinking, it’s biblical thinking. It’s more than saying the right things and maintaining optimism, it’s saying what God says and seeing the way God sees. All human beings have intrinsic power, but faith unleashes a greater power. Faith is an infusion of God’s plan into us to bring God’s purpose to Earth. It’s an impartation of Heaven.
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Is Hell a Literal Place?
Some have strong opinions about God, thinking that their views are facts. I do not believe that it will serve us well to think we are superior to God or in a position to judge him. God is God, and we are human. We like it when the Lord accepts us like we are, which he does. He also likes it when we accept him as he is, which is difficult for many.
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Is Healing for Everyone?
Christians have done more to fight disease than any other single group in the world. We resist sickness, disease, emotional suffering as well as spiritual darkness everywhere we have influence. We build hospitals and provide health care all over the world with an emphasis on resisting every kind of ailment. We encourage research and promote innovative techniques that prevent disease, heal, and improve nutrition.
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Christianity Today Validates Positive Trends In Church (with a strange negative slant)
By placing His divinity within our humanity, and then leaving us on the Earth to try to do what he is doing and say what he is saying, a monumental task develops . . . especially if increased numbers of people keep showing up in our churches.
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Why Do People Say Our Ancestors Are From Outer Space?
Some secularists believe that because we humans are so different than other living beings here on the earth, there had to be some outside influence on human development in addition to evolution. Biblical believers, however, explain those distinctions with the creation account of Adam and Eve and the 1,500 pages of ancient accounts of God dealing with the human race.
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What is going to happen to our country in the next four years?
We have no guarantees for the future, but we can all prepare and trust so we can capitalize on opportunities that may come our way. We don’t need to know the details of the future, but we can prepare and trust in order to be our best.
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Pastors and Friendships
I believe we will find our greatest friendships among those with whom we share life experiences; and often these people are within our own churches. They can become our most faithful friends.
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We Are Easter People
Easter is the day we celebrate Jesus’ resurrection from the dead, and his resurrection allows us to come alive in him. So on Easter Sunday morning we are celebrating his resurrection and his life in us. Resurrection lets us all begin life anew.
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Why is Good Friday “Good”?
The Garden of Eden was perfect. Why the snake? King David was God’s Chosen. Why the adultery? Jesus healed and helped. Why kill him? This blog explains why we call the day we killed Christ “good.”
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False Expectations
They were right about the fact that Jesus was the Messiah, but their mistaken expectations of him led to such deep disappointment that they wanted him dead by the following Friday evening. Those who had loved him switched to hating him because he disappointed them. This is the same reason many divorce, leave churches, switch jobs, and blame others. . .
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Why We Have Fewer Billy Grahams and more Shooters
The beauty of a democratic society was on display the last two weeks as we contemplated ideas promoted by Billy Graham in contrast to the actions of Nikolas Cruz, the 19-year-old Florida school shooter. At the core of the differences between men like Billy Graham and...
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