Nomadicoder » Christianity http://nomadicoder.com Coding wherever I happen to be Tue, 20 Jul 2010 18:49:51 +0000 en hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.0 Evangelicals Ignore Dream Candidate http://nomadicoder.com/2007/05/06/evangelicals-ignore-dream-candidate/ http://nomadicoder.com/2007/05/06/evangelicals-ignore-dream-candidate/#comments Sun, 06 May 2007 14:10:39 +0000 Steven http://nomadicoder.com/2007/05/06/evangelicals-ignore-dream-candidate/ Continue reading →]]> For some reason, evangelicals ignore presidential candidate Rep Ron Paul, who is pro-life, pro-consitition and pro-liberty. He best represents conservative Christians. Chuck Baldwin wrote about why he’s ignored a month ago. Baldwin gives two reason, the first is concern that evangelicals want to be accepted by the Republican party. But I tend to believe his second reason, that evangelicals are shallow, prefering “candidates who wear religion on their sleeve.” Any candidate who says he’s a Bible believing Christian is worthy of the evangelical vote — If that’s the case, then they should have thrown their support behind Jimmy Carter and Bill Clinton.

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I do to improve my sense of well-being? New field of Positive Psychology points to gratitude, forgiveness, and optimism as actually making people happier.

An economic case for a Christian idea.

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]]> http://nomadicoder.com/2007/03/15/gratitude-forgiveness-and-optimism/feed/ 0 One of the Problems with Contemporary Christian Music http://nomadicoder.com/2006/07/19/one-of-the-problems-with-contemporary-christian-music/ http://nomadicoder.com/2006/07/19/one-of-the-problems-with-contemporary-christian-music/#comments Wed, 19 Jul 2006 15:39:29 +0000 Steven http://nomadicoder.com/2006/07/19/one-of-the-problems-with-contemporary-christian-music/ Continue reading →]]> In “Suffering, Thy Name Is FM Radio“, Jeff Tucker surfs the FM dial. He concludes with the problems of contemporary Christian Music:

I’ll just say this as plainly as possible: Christian contemporary music is ghastly, insipid, uninspired, brain draining, and horrible in every way.

This ghastly, insipid music evinces tears in the eyes of my evangelical brothers and sisters. So inspired, they incorporate it into their worship services. One favorite praise and worship song is entitled, “I Could Sing of Your Love Forever.” You can’t call a song that praises how much we love God a worship song. You can’t even call it a praise song, unless you want to call it a song of self praise. How narcissistic!

If praise is telling other people how wonderful someone or something else is, then who’s getting the praise? Who getting worshipped? Certainly not God.

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