Is God for everyone?

A few months ago I was at my church for a special event and overheard a conversation between a few of people. Their subject matter and the jest of their conversation intrigued me so much that I couldn’t help but to listen in.

They were talking about various people throughout history that had done very bad things; like Hitler and Charles Manson and so on. They were talking about how some people may have gone so far that they could not be reconciled back to God. The people talking believed that a person could step over an invisible line with the heinousness of their crimes and never come back, thus rendering themselves useless and unable to receive Gods grace and salvation. As I listened on I was wondering if it was the person that closed himself off from God, or was it God closing himself off from the person. I don’t believe it could be the latter because the bible says in John 3:16 that WHOSOEVER would believe in God would be saved. So it must be the person who cuts themselves off from God.

I myself don’t agree that “one” can not be saved. I think we can willfully ignore God and grow cold toward him but I do not believe one can go out of the range of Gods grace. I think we get this thinking as Christians and as society in a whole from the ranking of Sins. I myself am guilty of this because I think homosexuality is just gross, so I tend to judge gay men more harshly. I am definitely wrong in doing this, as their sin is no uglier than my sin of being judgmental of them in the first place. This next part may be harsh and sound whacked but; Hitlers holocaust, Mansons crimes, the Sudanese persecutions and my lustful thinking and your petty little sins are all the same.


There is no one sin greater than the other in Gods eyes.
There is no one sin or one person for that matter that God cannot forgive.


Dan the man out!!!!

White Out and The Law

So anyways...
-Nacho Libre

I was at work a couple of days ago and I broke my White Out dispenser. Now where I work, we use pen
for everything so this kind of sucked. I went from being able to make a mistake and fix it - to not being able
to make a mistake at all. This tragic event led me to think about something. Here are those thoughts.

I was thinking about the Old Testament and the Old Covenant Law. These both demanded perfection from
those who followed them. If you broke the law (or sinned) you would have to go through a process of
redemption and purification. Which included sacrificing various animals and going through various rituals. I think
this would put a massive amount of stress on an individual to make his or herself perfect. You would NOT want
to make a mistake because of the rigorous routine you would have to go through to undue that mistake. What
pressure you would have on yourself to be perfect! Just like losing my white out, I no longer had the luxury of
making a mistake. I now had to be perfect with everything I did, it was a little stressful.

Jesus is our White Out.

He doesn't give us permission to sin, but if we do mess up he forgives us and WHITES
our sin out. Thank God for what he went through so we never run out of "sin white out". We would be a mess
without Christ and his sin forgiving power. I would hate to go through life having to TRY to be perfect all the
time, instead of just living in Gods Grace.

dan the man out!

So...Why does God need our voice?

So why does God need our voice?
I asked a couple of our teenagers wednesday this same question.
One reply was: That maybe he uses us and our voice because we are already comfortable with our friends and family, and to hear us talk about God to them is better than GOD just showing up in his glory. I thought that was very interesting, he uses us because he respects where people are at and does not want to frighten them.

Another reply (which is the one God laid on my heart) was: God is spirit and we are tangible therefore he needs our voice to communicate his love in this fleshly realm.

Think about these answers.
dantheman out!!!

Why does God need our voice

If God fills the earth with his presence, and he is all around us, and knows us through and through. (Psalm 139) Then why does he need our voice? I mean, is he not big enough to open his mouth and tell people about himself. I was sitting in the office (the bathroom) thinking about this the other night. This question spurred from a cool book I've been reading (also in the bathroom) "In a pit with a lion on a snowy day." In the book, Mark Batterson encourages us to pray to God and then then actually listen. Soooo. I was praying and then I asked God why he needed my voice. Why does he need us (a feeble human vessle) to proclaim his worth and salvation of men? Why?

He replied... Well I guess you'll have to read the blog next week to find out.

Dan the man OUT!