Similar to an open mic night, I thought I’d make this an open keyboard blog. What are your questions? What are the things you’re pondering, thinking about, struggling with? This blog isn’t for the elders of Evergreen to just spout off ideas, it’s here to serve as a jumping off point for discussion for you, [...]
What a tough place to be. However, I think there is hope, because recognizing you are broken is a great first step. What is hard about admitting you are broken?
Secondly, after admitting your are broken and in need of restoration, the hope is that there is someone you can go to to help you through [...]
At the end of the service on Sunday, someone came up and asked me an excellent question: “How can we tell who really needs the help and what is the best way to help them?” It is a good question and few people ask it today in order to make the most benefit of their [...]
The pathways are an invention of Evergreen church and are only a model of how we can interact with God. The statistician George P. Box said, “All models are wrong; some are useful”. I think that the pathways is a useful model, but it certainly does not express all the ways we can experience God [...]
The other day a friend emailed me this quotation on despotism by Alexis-Charles-Henri Clérel de Tocqueville:
” …each man is haunted by a fear of sinking to a lower social level and by a restless urge to better his condition. And since money has not only become to sole criterion of man’s social status…everybody is intent [...]
We routinely disqualify testimony that would plead for extenuation. That is, we are so persuaded of the rightness of our judgment as to invalidate evidence that does not confirm us in it. Nothing that deserves to be called truth could ever be arrived at by such means. Marilynne Robinson, The Death of Adam
Matt Brown and [...]
