I’ve never been one to make New Years’ resolutions. I always felt like I ought to have the motivation during the year to set and reach goals, so the first of January shouldn’t be anything special. But this year, thanks to encouragement from the words of J. P. Moreland in Kingdom Triangle, I’ve realized [...]
Erik Reece’s article, “Jesus Without The Miracles,” breaks my heart in many places, and confuses me in others. Reece bases his thoughts on Thomas Jefferson’s Bible excerpts, which I wrote about in my last post, and the Gospel of Thomas.
Continue reading about Distilling the Teachings of Jesus? Pt.2
Karl Rove reveals that he and the President have had a book-reading competition since the start of 2006.
The competition soon spun out of control. We kept track not just of books read, but also the number of pages and later the combined size of each book’s pages — its “Total Lateral Area.”
Read Rove’s article, and [...]
Over at The Huffington Post, Anita Thompson wrote a Christmas article entitled What Would Jesus Do? Ask Thomas Jefferson. Thompson’s message looks to the philosophy of Thomas Jefferson, who “took a pair of scissors to the King James Bible and scrapped the dazzling miracles….[Jefferson] boasted that he had extracted the ‘diamonds from the dunghill’ [...]
The most recent book sent by Thomas Nelson Publishers for me to review was Think and Make It Happen by Dr. Augusto Cury. It is a self-help book, written by a trained psychiatrist, about the power of the mind.
“By harnessing the power of the mind, you can do, have, achieve, and create anything you [...]
“By understanding what my priorities are and never wavering, that’s how you influence people,” [Kurt] Warner said. “It isn’t standing on my chair with a Bible and yelling out scripture or condemning people for being sinners. It’s about living your life with a certain sense of excellence. And when people start to scratch their heads [...]
I’ve decided that I love Christmas.
This is a brand new discovery for me. I love seeing (and even feeling) the holiday excitement in the air, but I’ve never gotten very wrapped up in it myself. But what I realized this holiday season is that Christmas is much more than an excuse to give [...]
I wrote a few days ago about the church discipline story coming out of Jacksonville, Forida. Remember that I was critical of the church, accusing them of misapplying doctrine.
Today at GetReligion, Mollie Ziegler wrote about the same story, and she offers many details of which I was unaware. Here a few excerpts, some [...]
Today is, apparently, the day of controversial hot-button issues, as my two posts are about global warming and now gay marriage.
Over at The Huffington Post, Bob Ostertag argues for a different approach to gay rights. He asks why gay people have chosen to make gay marriage their goal rather than shooting for equal rights [...]
