Love Song Dedications

Ah Beng called up the radio to dedicate a love song to Ah Lian.

What song will he choose? That depends on whether he is a fan of...

Calvinism: "I knew I loved you before I met you" (Savage Garden)

Creationism: "Making Love Out of Nothing At All" (Air Supply)

Open theism: "I don't know much, but I know I love you" (Don't Know Much - Aaron Neville & Linda Ronstadt)

Wittgenstein: "It's only words... words are all I have to take your heart away" (Words - Boyzone)

Foundationalism: "Girl you have to show me why this is not our time, When all the evidence is saying that you're wrong" (Cliff Richards - Somethin' Is Goin' On)

Pelagius: "She went to heaven so I gotta be good, so I can see my baby when i leave this world" (Pearl Jam - Last Kiss)

Quaker: "I feel the earth move under my feet, I feel the skies tumbling down" (I Feel The Earth Move - Martika)

Reformed Epistemologist: (Live - "Heaven")
"I don't need no one to tell me about heaven
I look at my daughter, and I believe.
I don't need no proof when it comes to God and truth
I can see the sunset and I perceive"

NT Wright: ("Heaven is a place on earth" - Belinda Carlisle)

Dispensational Eschatology: REM - "It's The End of the World as we know it (and i feel fine)"


Feel free to add on...

Agora On Facebook!

Facebook is a social utility that connects people with friends and others who work, study and live around them... I just had my FACEBOOK profile - some of my favorite haunts are the the Agora and Campus Crusade Influencers For Christ groups led by Fiona and Mishael.

Here is the description of the IFC movement:

"In Matthew 5:13-16, Jesus challenges us to be salt and light--to influence the world. Every Christian can be an influencer for Christ-- a growing believer who lives in the power of the Holy Spirit and actively seeks to live out God's calling for his life.

Our Mission Statement:
Building movements everywhere so that everyone knows someone who truly follows Jesus.

To be salt and light of the world we need to be connected Christians. This group allows you to connect with Christians everywhere so that these relationships will provide a synergistic momentum to building a movement of like-minded Influencers for Christ.

Our focus is to build movements of people who desire to evangelize, disciple and mobilize others to engage in God's work of transforming the world."

Theology Of "Calvin And Hobbes"

Found this conversation between Calvin and Hobbes hilarious cos' it reminds me of some theological bloggers, incl. myself. Can't convince them? Confuse them... It can be done easily by dropping obscure names that nobody heard of, quote huge tomes with rave reviews that nobody finished reading, shoot out big jargons that are almost impossible to pronounce like supralapsarianism... Shock and awe, forget clarity

Also found a provoking article on what we can learn from Calvin and Hobbes on Message and Medium:

"If the subtle message of Calvin and Hobbes doesn’t fit on t-shirts, bumper stickers, and bedsheets, then it seems unlikely that the message of Christ does. That the almighty and entirely holy God would undertake the costly work of reconciling sinners to himself — that one of the Trinity died on the cross for us and our salvation — that the Spirit would be poured out and dwell in a created temple without consuming it — who is sufficient for these things? If we can easily rule out some media as being inadequate for containing this message, is it possible to identify any medium that could be adequate?

Keith Green concluded his rant with, “I think the world is completely sick to its stomach with our sayings and ‘witnessing tools.’ It’s time for us to be expressing the truth with our lives, and then the whole truth of God with our lips!”

The only appropriate media for communicating the gospel are lives and words. Christians have to wrap themselves up in the good news of Jesus Christ, live that mystery together in the fellowship of the church, and give the world something worth seeing. And they have to explain it in the form of sound doctrine, explaining biblical truth, making the message clear as only words can. There is a strong temptation these days to seek refuge in the claim that “my life is my testimony,” as if a set of behaviors could take the place of preaching, teaching, witnessing, and the host of other verbal interactions the New Testament is about. But the gospel is wordy, just as it is lifey. It just isn’t very bumper stickery."

Read On: What can You Learn From Calvin & Hobbes?