“What matters more — love, or correct beliefs?” This is the question one of my Facebook friends posed on his page recently. (It received well over 100 comments). Part of one of my responses: People all over the planet could by and large agree on what love looks like. Saying we have to have correctContinue reading “Love, or correct beliefs?”
Category Archives: GOD STUFF
Squirrel Church
I went to church today. For about 15 minutes. By that I mean I stood inside looking out the window and watching a squirrel do his thing getting ready for winter. No anxiety. Nothing on his mind except whatever he was doing. And he lives OUTSIDE!! And he’s a lot lower on the food chainContinue reading “Squirrel Church”
Down On The Church
I’m noticing a pattern. Every time I write or talk about a spiritual issue, I accuse the church of wrong-doing. I’m trying to put a finger on why this is, and I think I’m getting close. I’m hoping that writing it out will help me to nail this down. As I have mentioned before, IContinue reading “Down On The Church”
Sunday Comes Every Week
I haven’t put up a new post in a very long time. Even as it sit typing this one now, I’m doing it to avoid getting down to business with prepping a sermon for Sunday. That’s right, 3:29 on Friday and still no sermon. Nothing even started. To every person in every church on everyContinue reading “Sunday Comes Every Week”
The Irrelevant Church
John 15:18-19“If the world hates you, keep in mind that it hated me first. [19] If you belonged to the world, it would love you as its own. As it is, you do not belong to the world, but I have chosen you out of the world. That is why the world hates you. I’dContinue reading “The Irrelevant Church”
Things I Don’t Know
In my last post I said: I do believe in a universe created by a God who cares for us and wants to know us. I really do believe that Jesus Christ came as the embodiment of God and that his death was the price for my sin and for yours. I do believe inContinue reading “Things I Don’t Know”
God and me
My relationship with God has rarely been a smooth one. It’s kind of like those families where there’s one person who doesn’t act like they value the family as much as everyone else, but constantly speaks as if they’re the only one in the family who really cares. If the accounts I read of God are accurate,Continue reading “God and me”
Out of touch atheism?
I’ve spent some time today on the Godless Wonder blog. It’s a blog written by an atheist, dealing with atheism. There are quotes from various personalities denying the existence of God, cartoons making fun of religious believers, and snippets from news articles about religious foibles and idiocy. I had two primary feelings about this blog. First, I think aContinue reading “Out of touch atheism?”
Response to Glenn Beck
Recently Glenn Beck said, “If you find the words social justice or economic justice, on your church website, run as fast as you can.” He suggests that congregants in churches that teach social/economic justice should leave their churches and find new ones, and that these words are code words indicating communism or Nazism. “Good god, areContinue reading “Response to Glenn Beck”
To everyone who has ever church-shopped (and everyone who has given up)
I have a friend who has a friend who is looking for a good church. In the middle of his search, he went to a church where he heard that “the church is not meant to serve you and meet all your needs.” Now he is feeling guilty for even looking for a church thatContinue reading “To everyone who has ever church-shopped (and everyone who has given up)”
Temp Arbor 