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Like a free-flowing cascade of water, coursing its way through creation, with a multitude of intertwining tributaries, so flows the myriad of mixed-up machinations, in the days, that is I am Jonny King's life

Slam Poetry? I am Jonny King Style!

I scribed this for an on-line competition to win a book.  I got a little creative, but alas, and seemingly, no joy.

However, for your reading pleasure, assuming there is the desire within, here it is for you.  I have added a couple of extra words, but it is, as was.  One really needs to hear this to get the flow, and just so you know, the book was titled “Crush It“, hence the final paragraph!

Lying list-fully, I recline on my bed, staring at the cropping-out, coming-forth, from my chest, laptop askew, up close, ready, be-prepared. I blog away much of my…

Driscoll: “the most demonic, satanic movie I’ve ever seen.”

Now what film do you think Mark Driscoll is referencing with these words?

Well, if you have seen it and perceived some of the perspectives therein, you might just be thinking about this moving picture right now!

Okay, enough of the guessing games… Driscoll is referring to the movie… AVATAR!

CT Entertainment blog further underscores Driscoll’s perspective with the following words from the mouth of Mark…

Do You Think People Want to Even Read More of Your…

“Blogging” was the word you were looking for… Yes, I was channeling you!  I have become a expert surfer in the pursuit, and like every self-respecting sports watcher, I can smell a remote control at a moments notice.  If you don’t believe, ask my wife, she has seen me in action when there are multiple sporting events are on, and it is a sight to behold… so I am told… when I talk to myself, that is… which is quite often!

If you are wondering right now what you are doing, and whether it is worth reading on, “what can I…

Capital Punishment – Is It Biblical?

What follows has not seen the light of days for year upon years, but in “light” of this recent post asking, Why Do We Not Have the Death Penalty, I was reminded of it once again.  Therefore, I have brought it out, and spruced it up, fit for the blog.  It will, at the very least, provide some food-for-thought… ENJOY!

CAPITAL PUNISHMENT – IS IT BIBLICAL?

INTRODUCTION

The ability to answer the above question should rise and fall on the credibility of the Scriptural interpretations of the pursuant after truth.  This is particularly significant in this subject matter, as it is easy to be…

The Self-Esteem Movement: The Latest Idol Move on the Dance Floor toward Deception!

This could quite possibly be the most personally convicting piece that I have posted to date!  ”Yeah, yeah, talk it up would ya,” says the cynic, who goes onto affirm that, “such is just a tactic to get us to read the whole thing!”  While such a confessional may know me too well, if I may frame it in such a manner… which is that this post has been sitting by itself as a draft, as it has required the love and tenderness that recent time hasn’t allowed, and as I have worked on it recently, probing it so that…

Super 14 – It’s Time for the Rugby “Shuperstars” to Shine!

Yes it is, Richie!

Well, those who would like to be, anyway!

I know what you’re thinking, how can a self-respecting two-season sports follower be talking about Rugby Union in the midst of a Cricket season to remember?! What, with the Black Caps bringing the cricketing-heat, as they take on the cricketing mavericks from… where?  Bangladesh?  Psst… That ain’t gonna fly… Aahhh… Send in the Hounds, I mean, the Australians (although as I type, the Bangers are firing)!

Okay, so that was a little attempt at Super Bowling the third One Day Cricket International in Christchurch, where the highlight will be, not actually on the…

What Happens When a Christian Blogger Calls the Cops on Another Christian Blogger!

No, this is not the plot-line in another F-Grade “christian” movie script, and when the penny drops on “who the Gehenna” the referents are in this quickly absorbing blog-line, one must confess that this is not the next riveting, although it could be that painful, in the, don’t tell me their fiction, Left-Behind Series… Mmmm!

Although, this could be the first in the series of… The Left Behinders fight Right Back… to the Front!  Surely, such a title will bring the masses back… This is a Protestant thing, so no offense or any other projectile intended to the “Truthers!”

I am known for obscuring the plain and simple, but…

Counterfeit gods…”Teens Pressured by Fashion Industry”

If you think such is a surprising reality, then maybe you might try visiting the city, although “cow-cockie” fashion could be the next victim in the search for redemptive significance!

The header before you is a Reuters headline, which affirms the following details in a recent study in the US.  Now while I am Jonny King’s introductory line may have given the impression that this is merely a humorous affair, take note of the following details, and if you have children, particularly young girls, but not exclusively, as there are plenty of masculine fashion victims, I would encourage you not to fool yourself, by failing…

Do You Have an Issue with a Catholic Mass at Parachute?

This post is not to be viewed as a thinly veiled attempt to assert and assail with weapons of Mass destruction.  Therefore, Please, put the weapon of Mass instruction down!

This really is a simple question, that seeks a simple or not-so-simple answer!  I am not on a Crusade-r, although I view myself as a Cantabrian, and I am not looking to start a holy war, well, not that sort of holy war, but I am after the truth (at this point the post-modern begins to snicker at such tomfoolery and arrogance), and I believe that it is worth asking such questions.

As I…

Leonard Ravenhill… God Put Fire in My Bones!

Even his name… “Ravenhill”… and No, such is not a reference to the Rugby ground in Leinster, Ireland!  However, even this name seemed to almost, Onomatopoeia-like, sound out and reflect this man who lived and spoke like he was a man on a mission… and he was!   Even on his tombstone (1907-1994), he still speaks… Are The Things You Are Living For Worth Christ Dying For?

Well, are they?

Throughout my thirty-plus years on this planet, I have periodically gone (and still go) through phases when a Christian Author/Preacher/Scholar… whatever, seems to be a means of grace that captures more of my attention, and…

Part Two: Why Do We Ask God, “Why?”… “What Is Going On?”

If this is the first post in this two-post series, you really need to have a read of the first post in this series, HERE, which deals with the not-so-God-good posture of those who come to the Creator and ask the perennial question of… WHY?

To affirm that this is a perennial question, affirms both its longevity in the human existence, but also the context that encourages its reality, which is suffering.  Therefore, for those believers who are presented with this question, pain is generally in the offing, and such questions have deep cisterns working within the individual.

Therefore, such questions to answer are…

IAMJONNYKING:NOT TOO VERBOSE

Tired of the torturous task of reading line after line toward infinitum of verbose diatribe, accompanied by an endless stream of incomprehensible one-liners by I am Jonny King, then this section is for you

Why I Think the New Atheists are a B*^#@y Disaster

Michael Ruse, author and philosopher of Biology at Florida State University has this to say…

The Emperor’s Incoherent New Clothes – Pointing The Finger at Dawkins’ Atheism

Thanks to the Cloud of Witnesses blog, I am Jonny King has come across a new paper that has been very recently published, which intersects with our “august” visitor to New Zealand, Richard Dawkins, which is described in the following way, on the Evangelical Philosophical Society blog…

Hipster Christianity: Are You Hype and Out Dude, and Cool for Christ?!

Is this the rebirth of Christ-follower-Cool?

In the words of Bobby Brown… “WHO?“… If you don’t know, you’re just not too hot to handle, too cold to hold… Yes, it is my prerogative to form sentences with words without reason that you are reading!

April 7 Debate: D’Souza vs Hitchens

It’s time to get it on, cause these guys don’t get along (presuppositionally speaking, of course)

Step Right Up, Step Right Up…

In a Heaving weight of Intellectual Discourse,

Ray Comfort Will Not Let Dawkins Do Christchurch… Quietly!

News is ramping up that an intelligent life-form is entering the outer back-drops of civilisation, a.k.a. New Zealand… Okay, okay, so that was putting the hype-R into hyperbole, therefore, we will call him a semi-intelligent life-form, but he is coming, with such a visitation, signalling his First Coming (I believe), as a suffering “myth-buster” servant of truth!

Free Audio Books… Piper and Bonhoeffer!

Better late than never, as the saying goes, and such applies to the context of this post, as I am Jonny King has been meaning to get the details of this out to you for some days… Singing… Oh, ooooo, Reader of Mine, Oh, ooooo, Reader of Mi-ine, When It Reads So Bad, I Want to Hold You in My Heart

7 Questions: Are We All Fundamentalists?

This is the question that the motoring one, of the preaching variety, no less, will seek to answer… now that he has brought it up!

What do you think about what he is affirming?  What exactly do you mean, I am Jonny King?

Gospel in Life: Grace Changes Everything

And all the faithful said, “Amen“… Well, maybe that was just the charismatics!  However, I am sure the cessationists at least thought about it!

A little bit of levity to introduce you to a resource that you need to tell your Pastor about

How I Found God and Peace with my Atheist Brother…

…PETER HITCHENS traces his journey back to Christianity

In what I will describe as a reflective, poignant, even remorseful account of the relationship with his brother, famous or in-famous Atheist prognosticator, Christopher Hitchens, Peter, talks about his loss of faith, and the Prodigal road home.

Now On-Line: CATALYST Christian Bookstore

An exciting new development in a New Zealand context, which has world-wide implications, has very recently (yesterday) and officially launched!

I could rabbit on about the details, but here is the news from the source… a Press Release…

Event: Christianity On Trial

… which goes on to state… Is Belief in God a Delusional Road-Block to Progress?

Such is surely what many in our cultural contexts will want to affirm!  Do you provide a response to such, if indeed you disagree with this perspective?

Event: Has Science Disproved God?

Recently, in this post… HERE… it was affirmed that, on the thoughtful and worthwhile horizon, certain events were in the offing.

It just so happens that the horizon is now in the foreground, with quality events, from a Christian worldview, in the coming days!

To All Pastors and Preachers…

and Christians…

What or Whose ideas were preached from the pulpit this Sunday (assuming of course)?   Did you hear God speaking this weekend in corporate worship?

Indescribable! Time for a Little Giglio…

No, Louie Giglio is not a figure of ill-repute, and such an inference is totally unwarranted!

He is a pretty well-known figure around the Evangelical traps, which should be elevated in the coming 12 months in a “Kiwi” context, as he is the key-note communicator at The Parachute Festival 20-11,

These Images Declare the Glory of God!

Creation as a form of General Revelation communicates a message, as Romans 1:20 underscores, and points the glory of the Creator-God (Psalm 19:1)!

Although there seems to be conjecture of when these were taken, the beauty of our “privileged planet” is there for all to view!

Moralistic, Therapeutic, Deism, and the Dangers of Assuming the Gospel

You may be thinking that the header before you is of a monstrous proportion, but the effect of this reality in our children, in our churches and in the preaching of the cornerstone of the Christian message is nothing short of a monstrosity!

Demon Hunter: Article, New Album, and New Video

Just before you are thinking to asking… Yes, this is a Christian band!  Okay, so it may not be your cup of coke, particularly if you’re a fan of the Gaither’s, but don’t get fooled by your own perceptions, as you can read all about it…soon!

The reason that I am Jonny King has been aware of this band of the metallic sort,

Randy Alcorn: Do You Believe God Created the Earth in Six Literal 24-hour Days?

In a recent post… HERE… Man of Spin has recently posted on the context of Christian leaders, lay-people, and Evolution, where the comment was made that there is not a monolithic perspective of this in Evangelical Christianity!

Randy Alcorn is a well-known and heavily publishing Christian author in both fiction and non-fiction contexts.

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