If you are a regular reader of this blog, you probably have ascertained two things about me. One is that I have strong opinions. Two is that this blog is not a place for constant back and forth. Neither is the rest of my life. This blog is the place where I share my views.Continue reading “Reasons I am sick of arguments both for and against religion”
Category Archives: GOD STUFF
What does the world really need?
I heard a good, well-meaning person recently say that prayer is the only thing keeping things in the world from being worse than they are. I disagree with this. Whether or not such people are praying or not, God works through human beings, and it is only as each human being works from a placeContinue reading “What does the world really need?”
Lessons in love from Dexter and Breaking Bad, prt. 2
You are more like Dexter Morgan than you think. In fact you are very, very much like Dexter, and like Walter White. They both have family that they care about, just like you. They both are struggling with who they are, just like you. They both are hiding something, just like you. They both fearContinue reading “Lessons in love from Dexter and Breaking Bad, prt. 2”
Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 4 — “Are you telling me to be a doormat?”
If you have read all the posts in this series, you may by now thinking that what I am suggesting here is that you simply give up and become a doormat; that you resign yourself to being walked on by everybody, letting life steamroll you, and settling for whatever scraps fall from everyone else’s table.Continue reading “Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 4 — “Are you telling me to be a doormat?””
Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 3
I said in my last post that in this one I would explore our true power. If you are just coming to my blog and have not read the two earlier posts in this series, please check them out before you read this one, because I am convinced that you will never understand your trueContinue reading “Embracing Powerlessness, prt. 3”
Embracing Powerlessness
There is freedom in embracing powerlessness. Most of the time we’re scurrying around trying to fix things — relationships, issues at work, problems with the cars, problems at our kids’ schools — our lives seem like a bewildering array of problems, all of which we believe we have to fix. We believe this deeply enoughContinue reading “Embracing Powerlessness”
Get God off your priority list!
I tell my congregation all the time that the place for God is not at the top of your priority list, it is at the center of your life. You may think these are just two different ways of saying basically the same thing, but they are drastically different. In fact the difference between theseContinue reading “Get God off your priority list!”
Bring it On!
Last week I went into an eye surgeon for a consultation. I have a cyst in the corner of each of my eyes. It doesn’t hurt, and isn’t even very obvious, but it bugs me. They needed to check to see if removing the cysts will interfere with my tear ducts. Apparently the way theyContinue reading “Bring it On!”
From god to pariah — thoughts on Joe Paterno, prt.2
In my last post I told you that in this one I would share with you a way of avoiding the all-or-nothing thinking most people tend to adopt in situations like Joe Paterno’s, where we take a man who has been a hero all of his life and make him a pariah overnight because ofContinue reading “From god to pariah — thoughts on Joe Paterno, prt.2”
From god to pariah — thoughts on Joe Paterno, prt.1
I don’t know anything about sports. In fact I know less than nothing about sports. So until a week or so ago, I am not sure if I had ever even heard of Joe Paterno. But I have studied up on this story a little bit. The reactions I am hearing from people demonstrate howContinue reading “From god to pariah — thoughts on Joe Paterno, prt.1”
Temp Arbor 