{"id":219,"date":"2006-03-06T16:30:00","date_gmt":"2006-03-06T16:30:00","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/blog.beliefnet.com\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html"},"modified":"2006-03-06T16:30:00","modified_gmt":"2006-03-06T16:30:00","slug":"humble-musings","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html","title":{"rendered":"Humble musings"},"content":{"rendered":"

I was listening to the radio while driving my girls home from school today and they were interviewing this woman, a well known evangelist and author, and something she said some things that just didn’t sit right with me.
\nLike, “God is sending us, meaning us Christians, wake up calls- like Katrina and 9\/11 to wake up the church.” She was using Isaiah as an example of a person who “looked up” or woke up and became one of the greatest prophets of the OT. Huh? I don’t get it. Is God trying to get our attention? Is that why natural and terrorist disasters happen? That’s what she was saying.
\nWhat do you think?
\nAnother thing she said is “God loves<\/strong> all homosexuals, adulterers and fornicators.” He loves everybody. As a Calvinist, I know\/believe that God loves those whom His Son redeemed, the elect.
\nSo my question is: Does God love those who aren’t redeemed or in other words the reprobate? Do we have the right to say that “God loves you” to everyone? If God truly loved everyone, then why would anyone go to hell?
\nAs I sit here posting this, I think what it really comes down to is recognizing<\/span> that ancient heresy known as Arminianism. That’s why it didn’t sit well with me. Half the battle, I think, is in the recognition of these half-truths.
\nI know this is provocative, but these are just some of the questions that me, a humble sinner was wondering about today.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

I was listening to the radio while driving my girls home from school today and they were interviewing this woman, a well known evangelist and author, and something she said some things that just didn’t sit right with me. Like, “God is sending us, meaning us Christians, wake up calls- like Katrina and 9\/11 to…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":310,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-219","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-life-under-the-sun"],"yoast_head":"\nHumble musings - Reformed Chicks Blabbing<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Humble musings - Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:description\" content=\"I was listening to the radio while driving my girls home from school today and they were interviewing this woman, a well known evangelist and author, and something she said some things that just didn’t sit right with me. Like, “God is sending us, meaning us Christians, wake up calls- like Katrina and 9\/11 to…\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:url\" content=\"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:site_name\" content=\"Reformed Chicks Blabbing\" \/>\n<meta property=\"article:published_time\" content=\"2006-03-06T16:30:00+00:00\" \/>\n<meta name=\"author\" content=\"susan\" \/>\n<meta name=\"twitter:card\" content=\"summary_large_image\" \/>\n<!-- \/ Yoast SEO plugin. -->","yoast_head_json":{"title":"Humble musings - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","robots":{"index":"index","follow":"follow","max-snippet":"max-snippet:-1","max-image-preview":"max-image-preview:large","max-video-preview":"max-video-preview:-1"},"canonical":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html","og_locale":"en_US","og_type":"article","og_title":"Humble musings - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","og_description":"I was listening to the radio while driving my girls home from school today and they were interviewing this woman, a well known evangelist and author, and something she said some things that just didn’t sit right with me. Like, “God is sending us, meaning us Christians, wake up calls- like Katrina and 9\/11 to…","og_url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html","og_site_name":"Reformed Chicks Blabbing","article_published_time":"2006-03-06T16:30:00+00:00","author":"susan","twitter_card":"summary_large_image","schema":{"@context":"https:\/\/schema.org","@graph":[{"@type":"WebPage","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html","name":"Humble musings - Reformed Chicks Blabbing","isPartOf":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#website"},"datePublished":"2006-03-06T16:30:00+00:00","dateModified":"2006-03-06T16:30:00+00:00","author":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/9bd0e3de185a7e3cd36be95d1a21d7a0"},"breadcrumb":{"@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html#breadcrumb"},"inLanguage":"en-US","potentialAction":[{"@type":"ReadAction","target":["https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html"]}]},{"@type":"BreadcrumbList","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/2006\/03\/humble-musings.html#breadcrumb","itemListElement":[{"@type":"ListItem","position":1,"name":"Home","item":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing"},{"@type":"ListItem","position":2,"name":"Humble musings"}]},{"@type":"WebSite","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#website","url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/","name":"Reformed Chicks Blabbing","description":"Politics and current events from a Reformed perspective, by Michele McGinty","potentialAction":[{"@type":"SearchAction","target":{"@type":"EntryPoint","urlTemplate":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/?s={search_term_string}"},"query-input":{"@type":"PropertyValueSpecification","valueRequired":true,"valueName":"search_term_string"}}],"inLanguage":"en-US"},{"@type":"Person","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/9bd0e3de185a7e3cd36be95d1a21d7a0","name":"susan","image":{"@type":"ImageObject","inLanguage":"en-US","@id":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/#\/schema\/person\/image\/","url":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","contentUrl":"https:\/\/secure.gravatar.com\/avatar\/?s=96&d=mm&r=g","caption":"susan"},"url":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/author\/susan"}]}},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/310"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=219"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/219\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=219"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=219"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.beliefnet.com\/columnists\/reformedchicksblabbing\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=219"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}