Why Tim Tebow Is So Popular

Why Tim Tebow Is So Popular

The short answer to the question as to why Tim Tebow is so popular is: because Christians are shut out of the mainstream, and yet many of us know that Christianity holds the solution to the ills of this nation and personal lives.
 
Therefore we feel a frustration as to how we can get the mainstream to see that. I’ve responded to that frustration by writing books, making DVD’s, doing public speaking, making CD’s, and being in the media. But it has been very difficult to get a lot of attention because of the walking on eggshells climate in the mainstream regarding religion.
 
What makes it extra frustrating is knowing that Christianity has been shut out of the mainstream because of a false mandate … the separation of church and state. Supreme Court Chief Justice William Rehnquist in official opinions wrote this about that phrase: “Using the phrase ‘separation of Church and state’ is actually a mischievous diversion from the actual intention of the founding fathers, and use of that term should be explicitly abandoned.”
 
So, some of the energy of this frustration is grounded when Tim Tebow unashamedly in a large mainstream forum makes known that his #1 priority is Christianity. And now we see an outpouring of others who feel the same way. Here is a verse that Tim Tebow has painted under his eyes during a game. (Jesus said) “If anyone is ashamed of me and my words in this adulterous and sinful generation, the Son of Man will be ashamed of him when he comes in his Father’s glory with the holy angels” Mark 8:38.
 
But another possibility here is: is divine intervention involved in the miraculous wins that Tebow is orchestrating? It’s almost like with Denver losing the game in the 4th quarter, God says that He is not going to let His faithful servant not shine and give Him glory. And less than stellar statistics are overcome in this repeated scenario with victories.
 
Then these miraculous comebacks leave the mainstream media scrambling for alternate explanations. They try to attribute the wins to the defense and other offensive players. But there is something that they are overlooking in that assessment: all of those same players were around when the team had one win and four losses. Now they’ve since gained six wins and one loss. And the ONLY difference during that losing and winning period is Tim Tebow.
 
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Dennis Marcellino is the author of THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true, which can be seen at http://www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com.

What I miss about the hippie days

For those of us who are old enough to remember … in spite of all of its faults (and there were a number of them), I think what I miss most about the hippie days is: a rejection of worldliness and shallowness, and a deep, serious inquiry about life and its deeper mysteries and meanings and purer manifestations … an …interest and curiosity (accompanied by a deep feeling) which seems to be greatly missing from the world today. But it was popular and even commonplace in many circles back then. In fact there was a peer pressure to reject shallowness and embrace depth. I miss all of that. OR … is it going on somewhere that you know about? www.UltimateTruths.com.

Faith vs. Proof

Faith can be fragile, given all of the pressures and influences in the world. And it can even go away … either temporarily in day to day life or permanently (like with a lot of young people these days). But it is nice when people have it solidly … but I don’t see many hard-working disciples around these days as evidence that they do Whereas “proof” allows a person to make a solid decision based on something that they come to see is fact. No wiggle room in their thinking as it gets challenged by all that goes on in the world. And when a person is solidly intellectually sure … great faith happens within them. And actually, the feeling of faith is given by God to those who put their decisional faith in Him. (I used “faith” in two different ways in that sentence … one is “putting trust” and the other is a feeling that God puts in our heart.) That’s the value I see in “proof”, and think that it is a foundational thing that everyone should have … proof of what the singular truth about life is. Otherwise they make up their own truth or latch onto someone else’s. And the world can’t bless a person’s heart the way God can. The formula is: the more unwaveringly sure a person is about what THE truth is, the greater their faith will be. That’s why proof is important … so that a person isn’t carrying any doubt in the back of their mind. Fortunately, THE provable truth is beautiful. And that’s why I’m so inspired to spread that message

Everyone’s Choice

I was emailed this recently:

“I would rather live my life as if there is a God,

and die to find out there isn’t,

than live my life as if there isn’t,

and die to find out there is.”

But there IS a lot of PROOF that there is a God, which can be seen at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com. You can get to know God better by:

(1) Reading the book He inSpired – the Bible (… and proof that God wrote the Bible through His Spirit is also offered at that website)

(2)   Listening attentively to His “still, small voice” in your heart

(3)   Observing what He causes to automatically happen in your body and heart (the specifics of which He designed. I’m not speaking about things that are triggered within us due to bad programming, traumas, or wrong thinking. Although, He designed the responses that would happen within us as a result of those also.)

(4)   Observing what He causes to happen in nature (which He also designed)

There Is Nothing Greater!

There’s nothing greater than the PEACE and SECURITY of being able to fall back on a perfect, just and loving God all the time. What also is great is: knowing that incredibly pleasurable states exist that are so beautiful that they are not only greater than anything that we’ve experienced, but they are beyond anything that we can imagine … and the Bible says that they are in our future.

(The degree to which we have that peace and security is the degree that we haven’t any doubt that what was just said is all true, added to the degree that we have PROOF that it is all true. Towards the end of eliminating doubt and increasing proof and confidence that everything in the Bible is true, this has all been PROVEN to be true … even scientifically, and beyond any doubt … in my book THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true, which can be seen at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com. And in my book, How To Directly Experience God … A Step by Step Guide, I also show how it can be proven to each of us experientially. That book can be seen at www.DirectlyConnectingToGod.com or individually ordered at www.LighthouseBooksAndMusic.com.)

EVERYONE’s Ultimate Predicament

A big problem is that people are so caught up in their lives and feelings that they don’t recognize their ultimate predicament.

Or maybe they don’t want to look at it because they aren’t sure what the truth about it is.

People usually don’t reflect on the fact that they are here by the grace of God, and are allowed to stay here also by His grace … while He continues every second to beat our heart and breath our lungs (in addition to all of the other automatic body functions that we aren’t directly involved in).

But most people’s attention isn’t usually on Him. It’s on the distractions of the world. They give little or no importance or attention to God, not recognizing that they are a part of HIS creation and plan, whether they like it or not.

But because their attention is not on God and is on other things, the day of their death might prove to be disastrous. Luke 21:34 “Beware that your hearts do not become drowsy” (i.e. spiritually asleep, dulled) “from indulgence and drunkenness and the cares of daily life, and that day catch you by surprise like a trap.”

Therefore, a big part of my work is about PROVING what THE Truth is … so that people can know how to have assurance and understanding about what the truth about reality is and what their predicament is (which is: they are in a human body temporarily and their eternal fate and quality of experience now is determined by how they’ve chosen to respond to God and their life now).

My work is also to PROVE what God’s plan is, so that people can UNDERSTAND their ultimate predicament and then know how to give a good response, which is: submit their free will to being not an autonomous individual, but being a part of God’s plan.

Those proofs and understanding can be found at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com and www.Why-Are-We-Here.org

Revelations 3: 14//17 “The source of God’s creation, says this: “I know your works; I know that you are neither cold nor hot. So, because you are lukewarm, I will spit you out of my mouth. For you say, ‘I have no need of anything,’ and yet do not realize that you are wretched, pitiable, poor, blind, and naked.”

Romans 12:11 “Never be lacking in zeal, but keep your spiritual fervor, serving the Lord.”

The question to ask yourself is: are you so caught up in a pursuit of pleasure or in the mundane things of life that you are not seeing the bigger picture or responding to it? People die every second without having ever properly connected with God (on His terms) and then have to suffer the consequences for taking that approach. This is why Jesus said that the gate to Heaven is narrow and few will find it, but instead many will travel through the gate to destruction.

My Basic Message

All of my work boils down to this one message (from an objective, secular perspective):

All of the problems in the world are because people don’t act in harmony with the designs in nature. I mean, if you don’t operate something the way that it was designed to be operated, then of course you aren’t going to get smooth and optimum functioning.

Nearly all of my other work is to just prove that, and the fact that our Creator/Designer gave us a book that explains everything and what we need to do to be truly successful in this life. (That proof can be found in my book THE PROOF that God exists and the Bible is true, which can be seen at www.ConclusiveProofOfGod.com. The meaning of life explained in detail and God’s history with us can be found in another of my books, Why Are We Here?, which can be seen at www.Why-Are-We-Here.org.)

God did not goof. In fact, He made a marvelously wonderful creation … both on the physical level and on the spiritual/experiential level. It is people who have goofed. Bad things had to be injected into the world after “the fall” so that people would be prompted to not take God for granted, and to fulfill our reason for being here: to become eligible for Heaven. But people still are pretty stubborn and distracted and most still don’t seem to get that message … even in spite of hardship.

I think back on my life and see some incredible blessings that I had … extremely loving girlfriends and a wife … a safe, loving, functional society. It was me who messed those things up because I didn’t realize what I had and took them for granted, and because I didn’t understand life and how it was supposed to be operated. So I followed my “flesh” and the ways of the people around me.

There is a thread in human behavior that on first glance appears to be bad. And that is: humans are not easily satisfied and seem to always want more. The grass is greener is an all too common theme. People are more inclined to want to be served than to serve. But the reason that I’m saying that that isn’t ultimately bad is because that is the drive that leads us to God and the fulfillment of the purpose of our temporary lives on Earth. And once we really find and unite with God, the search is over, our life’s main purpose is fulfilled. Then it just becomes a matter of purification and service to God until we die. That becomes our main purpose. And whatever blessings come our way in the meantime … fine. But being united with God in the higher purposes I described is blessing enough as a basis for life. Whatever dysfunctions we might still have a tendency to initiate must be corrected, and whatever dysfunctions we encounter from others and the world must try to be avoided or must just be endured until this life is over.