San Diego Citadel Corps

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 30, 2005 in Church Technology, Sheep&Goats | 0 comments

“The Salvation Army Church is closely affiliated with the Protestant Church, except that we have no public observations of the sacraments,” remarked Dabis about the church. Dabis said the Salvation Army believes Jesus spoke figuratively about breaking bread. “We see baptism and communion as symbolism of an inward resolve. Something that has taken place inwardly, so we don’t need to do them outwardly. This idea of communion is something we do whenever we eat.”

Full article on the San Diego Citadel Corps >

What is a Higher Authority?

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 29, 2005 in Culture | 0 comments

As Christians, you can not have an opinion that agrees with scripture and use it to make a decision:

Colorado’s highest court upheld a lower court’s decision yesterday throwing out the sentence of a man who was given the death penalty after jurors consulted their Bibles in reaching a verdict.

The Bible, the sharply divided court said, constituted an improper outside influence and a reliance on what the court called a “higher authority.”
Newspaper Article

I have an education, can I use this outside influence to make a decision?

How they get here…

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 27, 2005 in Culture | 0 comments

Just for fun I looked at some of the recent keywords people used to come to my site on Google (# is my ranking on Google):

#1 “The Public Role of Religion in Secular Context “
#1 A Sermon on Community
#1 (AOL) killers mormons
#3 what is cultural invasion
#5 “Driscoll” and “Emerging Church”
#5 critique counterculture
#8 ‘If you don’t take a job as a prostitute, we can stop your benefits’

SDSU Church and Bible Study

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 26, 2005 in Church | 0 comments

Our church is prayerfully considering relocating to San Diego State University. There is a room available to launch that seats 200. Our community are many in their early-to-late twenties and we have a passion for training people up in a holistic worldview. It seems like a college campus is the modern areopagus to do this.

We met with an Intervarsity staff member who said that a Comparative Religions class, one of the selected requirements for students, is taught by a Christian-basher. I guess she has taken a particular liking to presenting (questionable/theory) as objective facts to present why Christianity is nothing but myth and hocus-pocus. It’s amazing how they will not tolerate a Christian professor from saying anything but an anti-theist has an open license to say whatever.

I just ask you keep these decisions in prayer, as of yet we haven’t made the decision.

Gideon Turns 2 Years Old

Posted by D. Goodmanson on Mar 26, 2005 in Church | 1 comment

My son, Gideon, turned two on March 19th, because we had friends who had a marriage on the 19th, our party was this week. Here are some pictures from the bash.

Album: Gideon Two Year Old Birthday Party >