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’
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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