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The Only Thing You Need You Already Have

Today I was not the person I want to be. Come to think of it, I wasn’t that person yesterday either. I’m tired. I haven’t been feeling well. Every time I try to sleep, some noise in the house wakes me up, and God forbid that the maker of the noise should be someone inContinue reading “The Only Thing You Need You Already Have”

Top 10 of the week

Here are this past week’s most read posts. 10. Will non-Christians be saved? 9. Count me in with the crooks and whores 8. About 7. Making the Spiritual World Real 6. Suicide=Hell? 5. Need a counselor? 4. When Religion Kills 3. Is Jesus the only way to God? 2. Responsible TO or Responsible FOR? 1.Continue reading “Top 10 of the week”

What is it with Mac people?

MichaelHyatt I just tried to upgrade Microsoft Office. It crashed my Mac. I used to be a fan of Microsoft. Twitter / Home Above is a recent Tweet from Michael Hyatt who runs one of my favorite blogs at http://michaelhyatt.com. First of all, I’m no Microsoft fan-boy by any stretch of the imagination. Last yearContinue reading “What is it with Mac people?”

Seeking graphics help

I’m not much of a graphics guy. I’d like to have some kind of picture to put with each post, but don’t really know where the sources of good pics are (you can tell I’m scraping the bottom of the barrel when I’m putting up pictures of me), and actually don’t have time to doContinue reading “Seeking graphics help”

No Svengalis Please

Dallas Willard has said that anyone who stands up and speaks for 45 minutes is bound to be badly mistaken about some things. That’s a perspective I always try to keep in mind and that I hope my readers and students keep in mind as well. To be a pastor is to presume to teachContinue reading “No Svengalis Please”

Repost: Making the Spiritual World Real

Is the spiritual world real? Yes. Can I prove it. No, of course not. But I think I can offer here an explanation that at least explains why belief in the spiritual world is plausible, and not counter to reason. At the risk of sounding immodest, I believe that what you are about to read represents theContinue reading “Repost: Making the Spiritual World Real”

Count me in with the crooks and whores

…it is the will to pray that is the essence of prayer, and the desire to find God, to see Him and to love Him is the one thing that matters. If you have desired to know Him and love Him, you have already done what was expected of you, and it is much betterContinue reading “Count me in with the crooks and whores”

Remembering Our Giants

I could almost count the number of teachers who really inspired me on one hand. 5th grade – Mrs. Leep. Made my rough transition to a new school district a little less bumpy. I knew she cared about me. 7th grade – Mr. Creech. Gym teacher. I hated gym, but he loved his job, lovedContinue reading “Remembering Our Giants”

Have it your way – sort of

You could win a Starbuck’s gift card because of this post. Read on. We have done a thing a few times at my church called “Ask the Pastor,” where people from the congregation submit questions to me via email and on paper, and I dedicated a special service to attempting to answer those questions. It’sContinue reading “Have it your way – sort of”

Anxiety, prt. 2

In my last post I mentioned that the best way to overcome anxiety is not to face it head-on, but to undermine it — to subvert it. This is just a way of saying that the old advice, “Try not to worry,” could not be more useless than it is. When we try not toContinue reading “Anxiety, prt. 2”