February 27, 2006 – Too many Christians are leaving the church because their needs aren’t being met.
Monthly Archive for February, 2006
How does a man love a woman?
At Barnes & Noble you can find plenty of books to help you on that topic. Percy Sledge made a lot of money singing about it. John Gray made so much money on his book, Men Are From Mars & Women Are From Venus, that he followed up with dating guide book. It seems that men need a lot of help in this area. And all the women say AMEN!
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It’s impossible to read the Bible with complete objectivity and yet we fashion a lot of our arguments along that genre of debate. I wish God would have made this walk we call ‘Christian’ a bit more simple. Following up on a couple of thoughts from yesterday’s commentary, God is real! I don’t know how to exactly explain that; however, even though He is Spirit, He is KNOWABLE: and He wants to BE KNOWN!
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How did we get backed into the corner that we’re in?
What scares me more than asking that question is realizing that many, if not most, don’t think we’re in a corner! Denial can be a very dangerous thing to embrace. Denial doesn’t usually go to the party alone: pride most usually rides along as well. It both scares me and saddens me as to how little I know about God, His Word, the history of my heritage. God forgive me!
Continue reading ‘Life Changes’
What was the last thing that you really, really wanted- badly?
Come on. Stop reading for a moment and help me out here: you’ll be helping yourself as well. It doesn’t have to be the last thing, but something you had your heart set on. Maybe I can assist you. There are lots of trivial things such as: a dress, a special outing or invitation, lunch with an important person, or a big screen TV (a guy thing of course).
Continue reading ‘His Offer’
I’m going to begin today’s commentary with where I left off on the one before (which you can read in the archive below). How do we know that we love God: love Jesus Christ? Up until two years ago, I would say that John 14:15 was my answer. Seems reasonable; however, in practice it was a very condemning answer as well. I could no longer keep the law than Saddam Hussein could love George Bush. It wasn’t that I wasn’t trying, didn’t want to, I just could not. Hello!
None of us can keep the law, be pure in thought and deed. None!
Continue reading ‘Can you say, I DO?’
Sonship of old vs. our post-modern views is radically different.
I had a double major on my way to a BA degree in college and one leg of that was in history (the other political science). Yet my journey last year into the desert fathers and Christian mystics, opened my eyes to something entirely new that I had not seen before in Christian church history: the importance of spiritual sonship!
Continue reading ‘Who’s Following Me?’
Change always brings regression!
It’s amazing to me that there are still people who do not use, nor own a computer. And, they are successful people on top of that. But, the last decade saw one of the most extreme changes in how we do life as any decade that I’m aware. It’s hard to believe that email is a recent decade invention. And every now and then I see an office with a typewriter to which most of our early teenage kids know nothing! What’s a typewriter?
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February 20, 2006 – That which we should be most familiar is that which we know the least.
Conscious Literalist
Monday night I shared with about fifty men how I had come to grow in my understanding and perception of God. In a very brief form, let me lay it out for you. From my early childhood to the day I gave my life to the Lord (age 17), I saw God as a Natural Literalist. I had no other concepts: it was an age of innocence, much like Adam and Eve, in the Garden Of Eden.
From roughly 17-27, I moved up the self-deception feeding chain and became a Conscious Literalist. It began in college where I was confronted with other religions, other cultures, and FACTS that I could not logically refute. So, in order to interpet the Bible LITERALLY, I had to consciously keep telling myself, I am a literalist, I am a literalist, I am a literalist. I believe in factual fundamentalism. The Bible is inerrant, infallible, and inspired.
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