Below is a typical response I give to religious people who are struggling with anxiety and write asking for guidance. They tend to feel as if taking medication is a cop-out and that prayer should be able to completely alleviate the problem. The thing is, in a person without clinically significant anxiety, prayer andContinue reading “Anxiety RX”
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Taking the Gospel to “The Found”
For all the talk that goes on in Christian churches today about reaching “the lost,” I would love to see a little more emphasis on reaching “the found.” When people who identify as Christian but are mired from month to month and year to year in pornography, gambling, addictions, and bad marriages (at nearly identicalContinue reading “Taking the Gospel to “The Found””
O is for Orthodoxy
I am currently blogging, along with my daughter, all the way through the alphabet. Check out how the idea started, and get the rules here. Don’t be afraid! The word Orthodoxy probably scares a lot of people. Orthodoxy is simply the state of holding right beliefs. Sound in opinion or doctrine, especially in religious doctrine; hence,Continue reading “O is for Orthodoxy”
Jack Black Evangelism
I think the emerging church should disappear and then emerge again – as something entirely different. I think it should do that every five years, in that emerging church spirit of always wanting something new and hip. I think it should emerge with great fanfare, set to music, preferably with people dancing and looking deeply spiritualContinue reading “Jack Black Evangelism”
The Almost-Gospel
In yesterday’s post I was writing about how there’s a problem in the church that is evident in the statistical data which shows that divorce and other moral problems are occurring in the lives of Christians at the same rate as in those who are not Christians. I think the cause of this is deeperContinue reading “The Almost-Gospel”
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”
