Check out this audio clip of Michele Bachmann talking about how gays are bullying America: Wow. How poignant. I didn’t realize how many gays have targeted their straight classmates in schools and picked on them mercilessly. I guess I hadn’t heard about gangs of gays tying straight people to fences, beating them within an inchContinue reading “Gays Bullying America: Our epidemic of anti-straight discrimination”
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How to Learn Humility
From this Sunday’s sermon… Trust me, the way to learn humility isn’t to cower in fear and refuse to be all you are gifted to be, criticizing those who are successful, thinking you could do so much better. It’s to get out there and take a few risks, use your gifts, and start letting lifeContinue reading “How to Learn Humility”
How Fear May Be Keeping You From Knowledge
A few weeks ago during the debate between Bill Nye and Ken Ham, Christians were posting stuff on Facebook like, “maybe you choose to believe we came from monkeys, but I believe the Bible.” Evolution in fact does not teach that human beings came from monkeys. It teaches that both humans and apes evolved fromContinue reading “How Fear May Be Keeping You From Knowledge”
Jesus on Poverty (kind of)
[featured-image link=”null” link_single=”inherit” single_newwindow=”false”]123rf.com[/featured-image] Matthew 5:42 (Dave’s Translation) Give to the one who asks you, after, of course, you have made sure they’re not just going to buy beer with your money, and after, of course, you think you have a good handle on how much they need it, and whether they’re struggling because ofContinue reading “Jesus on Poverty (kind of)”
How to Get Off of Your Hamster-Wheel
Meditation and the Hamster-Wheel The only hope for humanity to get off the hamster-wheel of existence is for every person to take up the discipline of meditation. It is the only pathway to move beyond human ego, constant want, and inability to see one’s self and one’s motives clearly. Without it, a person will alwaysContinue reading “How to Get Off of Your Hamster-Wheel”
Stop admiring your heroes and start emulating them!
Contempt for the process of becoming great Many in our society mock the geeky kid singing in the glee club, but revere that same kid when he grows up to be Steven Tyler or Carrie Underwood. Then the former mockers may well claim to be their “biggest fans.” Similarly, people often mock those who advocateContinue reading “Stop admiring your heroes and start emulating them!”
Reflections on God and Gays, and Much More
As expected, my recent post about the Duck Dynasty issue has had tons of readers, a lot of Facebook shares, and sparked incredible debate/dialogue, especially where it appeared on Facebook. If you do not follow my writer page there, I hope you will sign on and join in the conversation! The post below is an editedContinue reading “Reflections on God and Gays, and Much More”
My two cents on the Duck Dynasty guy’s comments about gays
Before you read this post, you might want to check out a previous post on this site. If you don’t read that first, and your comments on this post reveal as much, I reserve the right to ignore you. Yeah. I’m that guy — the guy who frustrates a lot of church people becauseContinue reading “My two cents on the Duck Dynasty guy’s comments about gays”
How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God
Someone struggling with serious health problems wrote to me today and said, “Dave, some of the stuff you’ve faced with your MS is horrific. How in the world do you keep trusting God and believing he loves you?” What a great question. With her permission I have reprinted my answer, below, because I wonder if itContinue reading “How I Suffer and Keep Trusting God”
What is Righteousness?
Yesterday one of Wildwind‘s small group leaders texted me asking if I wouldn’t mind explaining the Biblical understanding of righteousness. He said the word had, for him and his group members, a bit of a negative connotation. I’m not sure why this is, other than possibly its legalistic undertone and associations (conscious or not) withContinue reading “What is Righteousness?”
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