I chose the title of my blog today for two specific reasons. One of those is clearly unimpressive, in that as I grabbed my clothes out of my drawer this morning, enroute to work this “old man” out, my favorite shirt entitled “Bad Theology Hurts People” was the shirt that said “Please, pick me”! And …
I would like to take a brief bit of your time today to sort of piggyback on last week’s blog: It’s Not Called Faith Until It’s Hard. We wrapped up things, reiterating our main focus of the fact that faith is often times “hard”, yet we have been guilty many times of packaging the gospel …
I guess at times over the years many either overtly or secretly considered me a prophet of doom. Perhaps now looking back it wasn’t totally unwarranted. Not because I ate locusts and wild honey, saw apocalyptic visions or preached imminent doom before sundown “lest ye repent”. However, I guess in a way I just continually …
I’ve reminded myself a great deal lately about a spiritual truth that is echoed in all the synoptic gospels. In that lifeline to us, Jesus says in no uncertain terms that “unless we become as children, we cannot see the kingdom of God”! He then adds that the kingdom in fact “belongs to such as these”, while negating …
For the last two weeks, I diverged off of the beat and path of my usual meanderings of this cracked up American life in order to talk about something that had been on my mind for some time now. I had been desiring to first of all introduce the idea primarily as to why Christians …
I have had a hand full of people that actually care about me, start to look at me with an edge of concern lately. In fact, I can almost feel them whispering to themselves as I walk by, secretly saying to themselves, “Is he O.K.”? Changes And I understand that a little bit I guess. …
Where’s Your Homeboy Now? In St. Peter the Rock’s 2nd epistle and chapter 3, the edgy disciple-prophet pens a verse in the middle of a lengthy narrative on the so-called “negligible” signs of Christ’s coming, from scoffers who prognosticate that the jig is up on the Christians once and for all, for the “so-called” Messiah has …
Well, I don’t guess I need to spend too much time on why it’s been over two gosh darn months since I last wrote to you. After all, you know me by now, and well, this ADHD has really got to stop! I was however excited about my last post, particularly because I was feeling …
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