emerging thought in Montana

A couple of new podcasts are now up

iggy — Thu, 16 Sep 2010 02:54:00 +0000

I have a couple of new podcasts up.

Interview with John O’Keefe talking about his new book, The Boneyard

Also an interview with Bobby Masilamani.
Bobby is a 20 year old Evangelist in India who has taken on 18 street kids, but that’s not all.

Been a weird but busy couple of weeks

iggy — Tue, 14 Sep 2010 04:24:00 +0000

I have been a little silent on my blog. However, been hard at work in other areas… that as it may be, partly that I am looking for a job. Meanwhile, I am selling books on Amazon.com under the name Saving Faith Books (Yeah there are some books I would not rather sell) as well as changing the name of my radio station to Saving Faith Radio (which includes changing over the blog for the station.) I have been selling books pretty well.

The idea behind the station name change was this: I decided that iggyROCKS! sounded a bit amateur. I hope to move on and grow the station in a bit of a different direction and thought the name change to Saving Faith Radio might make it sound more interesting. My thinking is that 1. There is a saving faith that leads us to Jesus. 2. There are many out there who are hurting and their faith is fading, and they need a place to help save their faith. 3. It sounded a bit like saving face… Other than that, it just seemed a time for change. I did notice my numbers have changed dramatically as I was in the top 50 in my genre and now popped into the top 100. Mostly I believe is that no one can find me under the new name. It may take a while for the name to register with live365.com so for at time if you are still looking for my station, you can find it under iggyrocks. Also, I have started more live shows, and have figured out a way to take live calls. Believe me it is all very low-tech.

I also plan to add more shows and have been talking to JR Harrison, who is one of the Out Law Preachers to do an audio version of his blog sermons. I hope this will add a bit more spice to the mix.

While I am writing I might as well point to a few things around the blogosphere. JR Harrison’s blog as he has many great thoughts there… also Brandon Mouser calls out Ken Silva on his version of a picture (Brandon was present for the picture while Ken was sitting in his evil lair thinking of new things to make up.) It is funny reading good ole Ken as he has not changed and begins to sound more and more like Pee Wee Herman “I know you are, but what am I?”

I have fallen in love with the Out Law Preachers. While some are more radical about Grace than I am, I see God is doing something great with these radicals. So if you are on Twitter as well as on Facebook check them out.

I had a run in with an old friend. I still consider him a friend though since he has turned agnostic or atheist or whatever, he seems to be angered when I even try to interact with him. In fact his story is that he was a Fundamentalist Baptist, who slowly became a Christian Universalist, then read a book debunking the inerrancy and infallibility of the bible and so, lost his faith in God all together. I mentioned that these terms are not even taught in the bible (yes it is “God breathed” and “inspired” but I see those word often packed with meaning not found in the text itself… so when you find an original text we can talk further on infallibility, you might then have a strong case). He then went into strange rants about what I believe (though he was not even close) as well as telling me I must believe the bible is all Truth! Ummm… I pointed out that Satan is quoted in the Bible and his words are lies, not truth… yet sadly it just turned uglier and uglier… to the point he told me to “F*** off”. Well, I hope he is content… still sad to lose a friend I respected and loved over the years. It seemed that he went full circle in his fundamentalism mindset though. I know that Atheists bristle at the idea of being called a fundy, but you are… you have a belief system which is a “religion” of sorts… Believe me I knew guys whose religion is Harley Davidson so don’t tell me atheism is not a religion. You worship science, and your own knowledge… you worship self ego etc… etc… etc… If I turned atheist I would worship peanut butter and fishing… A friend pointed out this site I think expresses my thoughts in a humorous way about atheistic fundamentalist… check it out. Personally, the one big reason (besides not being able to deny that Jesus entered my life as He did) that I would never become an atheist or agnostic, is the ones I run into are just plain mean people. (Just watch the comments over that one!) BTW, I believe that this person worshiped the bible and Jesus wanted to break him of his idolatry… of course if he ever reads this he will blow a gasket (though he is never angry… haha!)

I also have been doing fund raising for different ministries in Africa and soon India… you have read a few past posts on this so I will not say much more other than I hope to move forward to start a non-profit organization soon that helps out small ministries that God seems to be bringing to me.

Well, that is about it for now. I hope to get back teaching on my blog soon… so beware!

Tony Campolo – Birthday Party

iggy — Fri, 10 Sep 2010 01:30:00 +0000

I love Tony Campolo’s stories… especially this one.
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kWlMV-UmueM

A message from my friend Ivan

iggy — Wed, 25 Aug 2010 19:04:00 +0000

Update: Please donate to Afaayo Fundation Uganda just fill in the blank with the amount you want to pay. It is prefered that you go through Google at this time though you can choose PayPal if you cannot use Google.
Look for the Thermometer on the side bar of the blog and “buy” our ministry DVD. You add the price you want to pay to help support the different ministries I mention on my blog.

A message from my friend Ivan Andrew Kusasira

Please help give a Ugandan vulnerable child a future by sponsoring her/his education or giving a one time donations. Schools opened yesterday….. we are looking forward to raising US$1015 more to have them all covered.

Your donations of at least US$30 will be a great help for a child to attend school this coming school term. If the Lord leads to give more, we will be more than grateful.
You can give online through Paypal by clicking here and inserting the recipient e-mail address as wordofmouth@wwdb.org
We will be grateful to hear from you.
God bless
Ivan

Just the Bible academy in Billings MT: Don’t be fooled!

iggy — Thu, 12 Aug 2010 18:51:07 +0000

There is a false “Academy” in town. By definition an academy is:

a·cad·e·my (-kd-m)

n. pl. a·cad·e·mies

1. A school for special instruction.

2. A secondary or college-preparatory school, especially a private one.

a. The academic community; academe: “When there’s moral leadership from the White House and from the academy, people tend to adjust” (Jesse Jackson).

b. Higher education in general. Used with the.

c. A society of scholars, scientists, or artists.

Phil Perkins is starting something called Just the Bible Academy. Don’t be fooled, especially if he wants money. He is not accredited nor a real “academy” let alone a “school”. He is a person who was fired from a local Bible College for harassment of others and not complying to the Yellowstone Bible College’s authority over him as a teacher while teaching there. Phil Perkins is presenting this as “seminary-quality classes”. Now at least he is not asking for money… but beware, Phil can turn on you in a heartbeat.

http://philperkins.wordpress.com/

Just to warn you, you will be taught legalism to the max. You will be taught to confess all your sins to make YOURSELF clean.. I guess you don’t need Jesus dying on the Cross for that after all! Now you might get a bit of logic, but man… I’ve interacted with the man and he has no grasp of logic or theology unless you love mixing the Law with Grace. These classes are dangerous theological suicide.

Randy Alcorn talking about Christoplatonism at Solid Rock Church

iggy — Wed, 11 Aug 2010 02:44:00 +0000

I wrote a bit on Christoplatonism a few years back, and references Randy Alcorn and his book Heaven. Though Plato has much value as a philosopher, I believe that much of the our accepted view of Heaven has been tainted by Plato…

Please help Ivan

iggy — Mon, 09 Aug 2010 17:39:00 +0000

Ivan Andrew Kusasira was in a recent car accident and needs medical attention. He is in Africa and needs donations. To donate: use this link. Then use this email address: afaayofoundation@gmail.com Please mark “services”. When you go …to the …website use this email address and then enter your own, then amount donated. You can also scroll down to and look for the donation thermometer and click the donation button. Ivan needs $50 just for x rays to find out if he has internal bleeding. I am not sure of the details, though he hit the steering column rather hard, which has cause him great pain. The money takes time to send so we need donations ASAP. It takes at least 5 days just for Paypal to transfer funds and then I must send the money on to Africa which takes even more days.

There is no new post

iggy — Sun, 01 Aug 2010 06:42:00 +0000

I must have fried my brain with finals week so there is no new post. However, I have a cute kitty picture for you!

Travis Mamone interviews me.

iggy — Fri, 16 Jul 2010 22:02:00 +0000

Travis Mamone of Coffee Chats does an interview of me. You will notice I sound a bit weird in the beginning… or weirder than normal, I was tired and just drank some major caffeine… and you sure can tell. Travis is great and you should check out the other interviews on his blog and podcast.

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Is the Tithe an act of worship or bringing on a curse of the Law?

iggy — Tue, 06 Jul 2010 18:33:00 +0000

Romans 12:1. Therefore, I urge you, brothers, in view of God’s mercy, to offer your bodies as living sacrifices, holy and pleasing to God–this is your spiritual act of worship.

I look at it this way. God supplies my needs, and all I have is His. Out of all the blessings I have I give to others. No obligation other than the desire God put in me to give. I am “obeying the Law that is written on my heart” but not under any legal or covenant obligation.

I think much of the corruption in the church today is around the tithe as many pastors have burdened their church with this Law and then worry more about money than lifting up Jesus. We cannot serve God and Mammon…. Yet, many of our pastors are doing just that and wonder why they are struggling. Likewise, most often the idea of some blessing is obligated from God once one tithes… what does God owe any man?

So many are taught they are poor because they do not tithe, yet, they are poor because they are tithing and under the ministry of condemnation which is what the Law is about. (See 2 Corinthians 3: 8-10 for the contrast of the two ministries)

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