Morning Devotions: The Book of Romans
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Still a Strange Way to Save the World
A Word Before Since I became an adult with my own family at the young age of 23, I began to acutely understand my fathers’ “Scrooge-ness” at this time of year. In fact, I wrote a blog back in 2018 depicting the cynical side of both his and my later experience, and my summation of it …
Living Without a B Plan
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 …
It’s Not Called Faith Until It’s Hard!
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 …
When Someone Takes You Where You Don’t Want To Go
The concept of being taken where we don’t want to go or being forced to do what we don’t want to do is anathema to those born and bred in the land of Stars and Stripes. Although we might concede to that arrangement as a child with no current bargaining chips, to be sure our …
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Sign, Sign, Everywhere a Sign
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 …
The Narrow Path Thing
Blog ADHD I guess you could say I’ve gotten a little off focus lately, with you know… with um, that narrow path thing I’m always going on about. It’s of course always on my wayward heart and mind as it relates to the part of it I see drastically missing now in the church, and …
Vanity, It’s Definitely My Favorite Sin
The Devil’s Advocate In 1997, I was quite captivated by a movie starring Al Pacino and Keanu Reeves entitled “The Devil’s Advocate”. I was finishing my undergraduate degree in Pastoral Ministries and Bible, preparing for my entrance into a Master’s program, eagerly ready to embark on a call into “the ministry”. The movie struck an analytical …
Awkward Dinner Conversations on a Ship of Obtuse Fools
An Epiphany of Sorts It was about a year and a half ago that I found myself on a particular “ship of fools” shall we say. I don’t mean by my deprecating comments to exclude my own ability to “play the fool” from time to time in regard to what I will reflect upon today. …
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“Self-Preservation: A Gaping Chink in the Armor to Spiritual Formation in American Christianity”
The Search for Happiness Well for someone who had as their goal to “write one blog a week in 2018”, I have no doubt given “I suck” new meaning in terms of goal setting. In fact, it’s been almost two months now. And though I have a myriad of excuses the size of all my x’s …