Ernie, the Christain spiritual guide, sometimes pastor, and all around off the wall mistaken theologian. I’ve been called that and worse which means that I am a prime example of what Walter Brueggemann called the scandal of particularity. How in the world can God use the likes of me? The answer is simple. God uses the foolish of the world to confound the wise- and so forth! Continue reading ‘The Scandal of Particularity’
Monthly Archive for July, 2008
In our quest to know ALL things we wind up with doctrines, creeds, and certainties that leave little room for faith. Richard Rohr put it this way, “The fundamentalist mind is a mind that likes answers and explanations so much, that it remains willfully ignorant about how history arrived at those explanations.” Continue reading ‘Healthy Faith’
A thing doesn’t have to be factual to be true and neither does a thing have to be factual for us to believe what we want to believe. William Blake put it this way, “What seems to be IS- to those whom it seems to be”! In other words, we believe whatever we want to believe and the “Almah controversy” is a good example. Continue reading ‘Virgin Desires?’
We as humans can DO a whole lot of things, mostly wood, hay, and stubble; however, when we realize WHO we truly ARE, then BEING brings forth the DOING and the making of gold, silver, and precious stones.
Ah those dangerous conversations that we have with ourselves. During the day the whispers and the things we hear tend to be agressively dangerous (to others) and then late at night they become depressingly suicidal (to ourselves). How the emotions do swing from tree (ideas) to trees. And we wonder what’s real, what’s not, and what’s all this inner conversation(s) saying? Continue reading ‘Dangerous Hearing!’
The door to living the Kingdom life is lost in plain sight! Jesus showed us that door and became that door, but I have a different take on what I once thought that verse said in John 10:7,9. Yes, Jesus IS the DOOR; however, He is also the I AM as God is the I AM, so can we read those verses as I AM (is) the door? I can! Continue reading ‘The Door!’
One hears a lot about the will of God; however, it is the will of man that is really at the core of our wants and desires. The most common prayer is thy kingdom come, THY WILL be done on earth as it is in heaven. So, what is God’s will and what’s going on in this place called heaven? Let’s venture some suppositions since I don’t claim to fully KNOW. Do you? Continue reading ‘God’s Will’
The birthing process varies greatly among the species. The gestation period among mammals can run anywhere from 19 days for a mouse to 645 days for an elephant with widely divergent differences in between. I want to look at the birthing of ideas, things that are not that we would like to SEE. Such birthing is as wide-ranging as the physical birthing and much more complicated in many ways. Continue reading ‘Giving Birth’
Unfortunately many think God & church are one and the same. But worse yet, they think that THEIR church and THEIR denomination is the representation of God and all others either fall short or are cults- worse yet NEW AGE! The words cult and New Age are religious X-files where everyoone is placed that don’t think like you do. Continue reading ‘God & Church’
Sacred Errancy!
How many years I wasted trying to defend the indefensible. In vain I tried to harmonize every Scripture with other verses. Square blocks simply won’t fit in round containers. For many Christians, the Bible is the infallible and internally consistent revealed Word of God. Every word therein, though penned by a man, God himself inspired. For me the Bible is sacred- it’s every Christians guide and the inspired WORD (singlular) of God, though not the WORDS (plural) of God. Continue reading ‘Sacred Errancy!’