I am frequently haunted by the words in the Bible. I don’t mean that they appear visibly, like a ghost might, but that they force their way into my mind as I lie sleepless in the early hours of the morning. So, on nights like these, I get out of bed and go [...]
“Get out of here. Don’t you know you’re in the way?”
The children scattered, but they didn’t go far. Their faces began to reappear from behind their hiding places. A bit more cautiously this time, they went back to their game of tag. Scurrying youngsters, laughing and bumping into everything - that [...]
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
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’ [...]
Sixteen years old, stubborn to see the world for myself, I embarked on my first reading of the four Gospels. How it struck me to realize that Jesus of Nazareth, the “Lord” of the Lord’s Prayer, was not in league with every person or in favor of every value esteemed in my world or my [...]
My heart is sick within me. Nothing nauseates me like hearing Christ demeaned, especially when the attack is made subtly. Overt attacks on God’s character are rather commonplace, just look at the vocabulary of modern expletives, but what is truly dangerous is the slew of subtle attacks that go unnoticed by many thousands [...]
I’ve been trying to listen through my roommate’s music, mostly to familiarize myself with music styles and bands I’ve never listened to. On today’s drive I listened to a few songs by Hoobastank, and the first song I heard started me thinking about how people who don’t know Christ perceive us who do.
Whenever I [...]
I hadn’t planned on writing again so soon, but as I began to read from Matthew something stood out to me as it had never done before.
In Matthew 4 Jesus begins to preach and to call people to Himself. Here is the start of the ongoing call that continues even today.
From that time Jesus [...]
The thought has not had time to fully develop in my mind, but I have been reflecting upon the great similarities between our culture and our local churches. I often wonder if we are settling for the world rather than reaching out for Jesus. Todd Agnew has a new song out that speaks [...]
I have been reflecting on many things lately and have only just been able to fully comprehend the source of the troubling of my spirit. I am tired of going to church, I am tired of debating doctrine, I am tired of putting on a face in front of Christians, and I am tired of [...]
