The church has become too bogged down in rules and creeds and has little time for the more weightier things like the reality of life and how to live it. All creation groans!
Monthly Archive for June, 2008
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Anyone who has watched an animal TV show learns quickly that they are territorial. Or, you can have a dog as a pet an watch them stake out their territory everywhere they smell urine from another animal. But guess what! We humans are some of the most territorial beings on the planet. And guess who the worst ones are? Continue reading ‘Territorial Imperative’
There are so many different languages in the world; however, there is one that is understood by all. Love is the universal language. You may be able to speak “whale” (Finding Nemo), but that’s not nearly as impressive as speaking the language of love which may not even need words. After all love is an ENERGY, not an audible sound. Continue reading ‘Love Language’
We can’t go where there are not words to take us. Neither can we understand what’s near impossible to articulate without the use of metaphors. History has been kept alive through various metaphors. The Old Testament is full of metaphors, which were historized in the Biblical canons. Too many of our current metaphors no longer work. We’re in desperate need of new and more modern metaphors. Continue reading ‘Modern Metaphors’
A very basic question that most side step is why are we HERE? Why were we created and who did that anyway? There’s a sizable body of people who see life as chance and that’s sure depressing if you ask me! Here’s where I’ve landed, which doesn’t mean I’m done searching. It’s just where I AM NOW! Continue reading ‘Experiencing God’
How is it that we can go from Genesis 1:26 where we’re told that we were created in the image of God to the concept of “original sin”? I’ll take original innocence, and let the so-called religious scholars figure out how they’re going to spin the “physical original sin” doctrine. Survival of the fittest or the loving? Continue reading ‘In Whose Image?’
God Is Love
If there is a central message to what the New Testament writers were trying to get across and a core message from Jesus, the Christ, it is that God is love. And yet the church has built massive doctrines around an eternal HELL. The chuch has made JUSTICE and a JUST God more important, having the last word, over love. How’d that happen? Continue reading ‘God Is Love’