[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]image credit: credomag.com[/featured-image] I just came across this statement on a blog I was reading. It refers to a book written by Dr. Peter Enns, former professor at Westminster Seminary, who was fired for writing said book. Here’s the statement: Upon my second reading and more reflection, however, I questioned whetherContinue reading “When Scholarship Serves Superstition”
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Do You Need to Move Past Fundamentalism?
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Unfortunately, the Onion gets it right again, I’m afraid. When I was a fundamentalist many years ago, I would hear negative media reports about Christians and think, “What’s wrong with us? We’re perfectly nice people! Super friendly. If only others would learn about Jesus, and come to our church, the worldContinue reading “Do You Need to Move Past Fundamentalism?”
Sermon: Don’t Miss the Horizon
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] This is the text of a sermon I preached on July 27, 2014. [Audio here] Good morning, nice to be with you again. Sorry I had to bail last week. As most of you know by now, a really, really important person in my life died 2 weeks ago this comingContinue reading “Sermon: Don’t Miss the Horizon”
Eight Things to Do to Work Through a Depressive Episode
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] I am depressed. (Are you? Find out here.) I don’t just mean sad, down in the dumps, etc. I mean I am struggling, right now, with a major depressive episode. I take medication for it. It’s an ongoing reality in my life. Especially now. I’m sleeping 12-16 hours a night andContinue reading “Eight Things to Do to Work Through a Depressive Episode”
Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”] My post idea today comes from a reader, who emailed a heartbreaking note to me. She attached the quote at the top of this post, and wrote: I came across this quote not too long ago and it stopped me in my tracks. As a teenager I was sexually abused by [identity clipped] for [lengthContinue reading “Your Gift of Darkness: What To Do With Your Suffering”
Why Suicide is Not Selfish
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] People say suicide is selfish because choice is involved, but where is choice, really? There are behaviors we do not have a choice in. If your favorite food is chocolate cake, and I lock you in a room with a fork and a chocolate cake, it’s not a matter of ifContinue reading “Why Suicide is Not Selfish”
How Your Brain Bends You Constantly Towards Evil (and How to Stop It)
[featured-image size=”featured” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false” alt=”evil — create an evil human being”]Credit: Lenore Edman. Flickr.com. Creative Commons.[/featured-image] There is a part of you that simply feels things, but has no capacity at all for language, or any other abstract ideas such as time, grace, love, truth, or justice. That part of you, the seat ofContinue reading “How Your Brain Bends You Constantly Towards Evil (and How to Stop It)”
My Rant Fulla Everything!
[featured-image size=”custom_post” link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] From my Facebook account, posted there today: What the heck, I’m deleting my account soon anyway, I might as well really say what’s on my mind. I’m struggling lately with the loose way we’re using language and how it has us in such a mess. 1. Not everything is beautiful.Continue reading “My Rant Fulla Everything!”
Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] My original post on this topic concluded with these lines: Both living in truth and living in falsehood bring suffering. In my next post, I’ll talk about why the suffering that truth brings is better. Have you ever had a terrible, miserable, horrible, awful experience that, when it’s over, you lookContinue reading “Suffering That Hurts vs. Suffering That Helps”
4 Reasons You Should Sign Up for my Email List Today
If you’re interested in my writing, you need to sign up for my email list. You may have heard this before and thought, “Why get more stuff in my Inbox? I’ll just go to the site once in a while.” Here are four good reasons you should sign up for my email list right now. 1. YouContinue reading “4 Reasons You Should Sign Up for my Email List Today”
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