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Bloggin’ Through 2008

Category : Random

It is that time again to recap the past year, so I went back and looked at the first post of every month and provided a link to them below with a little commentary.

January - The University of Michigan started of the season with a dominating victory over the defending 2006 National Champion Florida Gators and the Heisman Trophy winning Tim Tebow. Unfortunately, that was the lone highlight for Michigan in 2008.

February - I posted about Three T’s. They were tired, Twitter and TV.

March - I talked about some Personal Triumphs that I had at the gym in running.

April - I asked the question What Movies Have You Seen? and I was shocked to see that I had seen 34 of the AFI’s Top 100 movies. How many have you seen?

May - I posted from my mobile phone my son’s Big Fish Story. I am still in shock that he caught that big of a fish in my dad’s canal. May was a crazy month in which we remodeled our bathroom and took a trip to Colorado in the middle of the project.

June - We got our bathroom closer to completion and it was nice to finally being able to go to the bathroom inside our house instead of in a outhouse, and to take a shower at my house.

July - July always starts off up north in Manistee, Michigan and we took a special trip to Michigan’s Adventure on the 4th. I also ran in my first 5K while we were up north.

August - With the political season heating up I had quite a few blog posts about the election and this one was about how I felt that John McCain Had Gone Too Far. I am so happy that the election is over. Anyone else?

September - Youth Specialties released a video promoting Youth Worker Appreciation Day and so I asked the question, Why Do You Do It?. And that was an excellent follow-up to a post from a few days before about why I love doing student ministry.

October - I reminisced about how we were celebrating 70 Years of the Winged Helmet and what great icon for the University of Michigan.

November - I once again had the honor of going to the National Youth Workers Convention and I finished an entry that I had started a few weeks before after being inspired by Andrew Marin’s talk. Basically, I said that As A Christian I Am Sorry and I will let you read it to find out why.

December - I asked the question, “Can Atheists Do Good Works?”. I was inspired by an article I had read in the USA Today. What do you think?

2008 was an interesting year and I am really nervous as to what 2009 will hold for me. I could possibly be laid off from my job or have the company I work for shut down all together. It is really scary and the economy in Michigan is so bad. But my trust is in God and I know that no matter what happens I will have my family and my faith in God, so I am not too worried. However, I would be lying if I didn’t say that I wasn’t scared.

Can Atheists Do Good Works?

Category : Faith

In a recent USA Today edition someone wrote in and asked “How does atheism inspire good works?” They concluded their letter by saying….

How could not believing in a power above ourselves inspire us to do good for other people?

Then in today’s USA Today someone responded to that person’s question in a letter titled “Non-believers accept responsibility”. Their simple answer to the question was….

As a believer, I had assumed that God was ultimately responsible for the world, but as a non-believer I accept some of that responsibility.

I think that the responder has a valid point that I think a lot of Christians miss out on. Far too many Christians sit in their pews praying and asking God to change things in the world and I believe God is saying, “Okay, get off of your rear a do it.” It is up to us Christ-followers to get out their and be the answer to that prayer.

Have you ever seen the bumper sticker that says “Jesus is the answer”? Whenever I see that I like to say, “Well, what is the question?” It is so easy to say that Jesus is the answer, but the reality is that people’s questions need more than some bumper sticker slogan. They need Christ-followers to be that answer. After all, aren’t we supposed to be his witnesses here on earth?

But the reality is that, yes, atheist can do good works. It is up to all of us humans to accept some of the responsibility to bring good into this world, but Christ-followers should shoulder the majority of that burden because we should know better. It is up to us to bring the Kingdom of Heaven to earth and not just sit by waiting for it to come.

So what do you think? Can atheists do good works?

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