As a church with a strong grassroots approach to governance, FPC Tyler has a remarkable informal support network in addition to its traditional pastoral care structure, which includes pastors, a prayer team, and board of deacons.
Together, this pastoral care squad lives out a commitment to care for the souls in this community of faith, whether they're grieving, questioning, sick, or heavy-hearted. When it comes down to it, this congregation is full of folks intentionally caring for each other through the rough times and celebrating through the good ones.
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Jesus Christ is the only salvation and protection of the universe Amen! Thank you for the wonderful message and video God bless the entire team and their families Amen🙏
Good points!! Can't be repeated enough.
Fascinating analytical discussion with your typical incisive commentary. People don't fall neatly into categories though, do they?
Give me brutal honesty any day over the flowery fluff and meaningless “-isms” so prevalent in modern day (and shallow) Christendom. Substance in its rawest form is exactly what God seeks from us. And what we seek from God.
I would like to read one of her books
This was exceptionally good devotional/sermonette
Your Catholic viewer in San Francisco appreciates your approach to Niebuhr and will rewatch to assimilate better in July after a trip.
Thank you!
Yes, it does Exodus 21 Leviticus 25
How do we know what we know? Tautological?
Nope, simply a non-technical shorthand way to express the question of epistemology.
Theological Liberal here most
Glad to follow you from San Francisco. Roman Catholics can appreciate your message too. I hope it's harkened to closer to home also. I've never been in TX though close relatives had. Fine Meditations past 2 weeks I've been viewing. Bless you!
Viewing you on June 3, 2024, though videos, which always clarify and I appreciate thanks to Dean Willis mentioning on his videos or Fletcher Banner's newsletter. I wonder why they are post- dated as you just mentioned June 4 2024 as well.
Beautiful service!
Jesus Christ is the only salvation and protection of the universe Amen! God bless the entire team and their families Amen!
While agree that since Paul was writing to Christians that were under Roman rule at the time, he didn't really have the ability to propose ending slavery. Probably why the New Testament is pretty much silent on the subject of slavery. But I looked into it in depth, and in the Old Testament when the Israelites were under Gods law, the Bible told them that it was ok to own slaves. Said he they could and could not be, had laws about how to treat them, and that you could own them for life, along with their children. Something I've never really understood. Kind of exactly what I would not expect the Bible to say when it comes to something like slavery? Condoned and never condemned? That I just do not understand.
The new testament is not silent about slavery. It tells slaves to love their masters. It actually makes it worse.
@@MikeTMike I said "pretty much silent", not completely silent. Yes, it's mentioned but compared to the OT laws it's pretty much silent.
"Almost no one today would seriously argue that, based on the Bible, slavery is acceptable." Based on the Bible, slavery is acceptable. Leviticus 25 explicitly describes and condones chattel slavery. "44 Both thy bondmen, and thy bondmaids, which thou shalt have, shall be of the heathen that are round about you; of them shall ye buy bondmen and bondmaids. 45 Moreover of the children of the strangers that do sojourn among you, of them shall ye buy, and of their families that are with you, which they begat in your land: and they shall be your possession. 46 And ye shall take them as an inheritance for your children after you, to inherit them for a possession; they shall be your bondmen for ever: but over your brethren the children of Israel, ye shall not rule one over another with rigour." It's not a matter of reassessing where the Bible leads you. It's a matter of ignoring the parts of the Bible you now realize are factually wrong, or morally reprehensible.
Christianity twists their sense of morality. They think obedience is morality.
I am immensely blessed with a daughter who is biracial - white and black, another daughter who is Puerto Rican and black, and a son who is black, in addition to my one biological son who was born alive and is white. This subject has often been handled poorly in churches, even in our presence. I appreciate your stance and understanding. Thank you.
Jesus Christ is the only salvation and protection of the universe Amen! God bless you and your entire family Amen!
I am certainly glad Fletcher Bannon or the Very Rev. Dean Robert Wiilis mentioned you while visiting your town lastcwrrk. I've bern catching up all tour videos which are wonderful and succinct. I am a baptized RC the padt 75.5 years. Thank God for you too Padtor Baskin. So clearly enunciated and explicated your many videos so far.
Jesus Christ is the only salvation of the universe Amen. God bless the entire team and their families Amen!
Message most needed in these times
Jesus Christ is the only salvation and protection of the universe Amen! God bless you and your entire family 🙏
If God looks like me, God has my sincere sympathies.
This was excellent commentary
Nice Rhoback
The difference between predestination and predeterminism. Most Baptists and other evangelicals think the latter is the definition of the former. But then they often contradict themselves with a strict interpretation of “the will of God” in their lives in which they are helpless to do anything other than what God has preordained. They don’t realize it is they who are buying into predeterminism. I have often pointed out in multiple denominational settings that their views reduce Christians to mindless, soulless, and helpless marionette puppets on strings with God as the evil puppetmeister who “allows” bad things to happen by actually causing them to happen. They are then relieved of responsibility for whatever transpires. And are free to get back to bashing those “off base” predestination folks. We Protestants writ large are a funny group sometimes.
Thank you Stuard for explain spiritual Maturity .Wish more people can hear it ,Blessings from Pakistan
Missionaries in Pakistan focused on good evangelism and focused on developing the people through Education.May God bless you Steward
Yes they did. I'm proud of the work they did and the work you and the PEB are continuing to do.
Thank you for the meaningful message Rev Stuart Baskin .
Well mine isn’t the only view, it’s just the only correct one. LOL
And here I’ve just been waiting for the day you finally introduce snake handling into our weekly liturgy. And maybe upgrade to alligator wresting on the high holy days.
AMEN 🙏 CARDIFF
Disheartened that I will again miss the Maundy Thursday service. Will it be live-streamed online?
Someone forgot to pay the electric bill?
Hello everyone. We have had a complete power loss across the entire campus. Please standby.
Thank you. I am learning
Well done
You keep saying 2023?
Good catch. Thank you! It's like when I used to write checks and the first few each year I would always write the previous year and catch myself.
Amen!
The prince of peace is our living God
Tikuun Olam, Dr. Baskin.
I was a prison chaplain when that movie came out. Being senior staff, I got much less scrutiny coming in thru the gate so I snuck in a VHS copy of it to play for my three inmate clerks. Their reactions to every detail of prison life depicted in the movie were downright visceral, with many comments of how the studio must have hired real ex-cons to coach them on how to alter the dialog and even whole scenes to make it authentic. Only one of them had any shred of hope for a better day to come at the beginning of the film, but by the end the other two did as well. All three were very different men from that day forward. One eventually was released and is now a missionary in Haiti, one is still in prison mentoring young offenders in breaking their criminal thought pattern behaviors, one died of cancer while still an inmate, but in a civilian hospital with a beautiful view from his bed and with a guard who was particularly kind. And for me, the thought of undying hope has kept me going through some very dark nights of the soul when I was overseas and after I returned. Powerful movie indeed. And hope even more powerful.
You have talked about before Predestination. What I understand is that God extends his grace to us through Jesus Christ and that Heaven is Predetermined (my paraphrasing.) Do you think all humans are extended such grace? Do you think any are excluded? Thank you for your answer 5:40 .
Definitely something to think about...
Pray for Peace of Jerusalem
As I recently responded to another secular post on this subject, during my years in hospice, I personally attended about 700 deaths, but also hundreds more in the main hospital, particularly ER snd the trauma Center. With hospice, approximately 20% of the time there would be some sort of audible conversational incident where the patient truly did seem to have one foot in both worlds. These were always beautiful and holy moments. And many other times, there would be extreme pain meds involved which had the person sedated to the point of being incapable of speaking, or showing expression. Yet everyone in the room was able to sense some sort of other presence, and that some sort of activity was going on within the patient. When we all simultaneously sensed it ending, the patient expired. And now as one of the formerly dead myself (death certificate issued on 6 Oct 2003), I refer to it simply as the transition (the only word I use now for death). Dying is easy - coming back is hell. And yes, words are too simple and rudimentary to approach a description. Even the word “beautiful” is grossly inadequate. But the truly indescribable ‘other’ is very real.
1000 Days…Congratulations🎉
Thank you for making these videos. I never miss one and enjoy them immensely.
This isn’t how it was explained to me. I was told that predestination means God has already chosen those who will go to heaven and who will go to hell. It’s beyond our control. What you described sounds more like universal salvation.
What you're describing is called double predestination, and it is one way of envisioning the doctrine. It has the advantage of being self-consistent: if God chooses or elects some for salvation, then God must choose others for damnation. But that's not the only way to talk about predestination. I'm not a universalist, though I hold out hope that ultimately all will come to faith. For my money, I am comfortable with a little bit of uncertainty and ambiguity. Because God's ways are at some level unknowable to us, trying to tie the doctrine up with a neat bow with not loose ends always ends up with an unsatisfying result. But I also believe that the doctrine is more grace filled than Pelagianism. Thanks for your comment!
Back in the 80’s when it seemed in vogue for some seminarians to just froth at the mouth about pre-millennial, post-millennial, or a-millennial positions, I rather enjoyed stirring the pot by announcing I was pan-millennialist - believing that regardless of mine or any of their opinions, in the end it would all just pan out. Then I’d abruptly walk off. I rather enjoyed listening from the increasing distance as their animated conversations got even louder and more intense.