I remember in a past business I had when I or someone used to say, “Well, under the circumstances, I cannot do this or that”, I or someone else was always told, “Well, why are you under there?” This was said because I or other people were usually making excuses why they did not or [...]
A friend of mine wrote me an email the other day telling me about a book titled, “When Goliath Doesn’t Fall by Jody Conrad. My friend is real good friends with the author. Here is the Amazon.com summary of the book.
Even though the fig trees have no blossoms, and there are no grapes on the [...]
Hairshirts are out! Mortification of the flesh is soooooo middle ages. Today spiritual disciplines really need to be focused on our relationship with God in a world where God gets crowded by everyday distractions.
Turn off the radio. Use the quiet of the car to pray out loud. Do it for the whole drive or just [...]
This week, Ed began a discussion in church about the stages we think people progress through as they grow in their walk with God. The five stages we have identified are spectator, passenger, voyager, hiker and trail blazer. These are descriptions of a process that we have seen. We recognized, for example, that people who [...]
The icon we use for the Physical pathway shows a man hammering a nail. When you see that icon, who do you imagine that the man is? Why is he hammering? Is he a Christian on a short-term missions trip repairing a school in Guatemala? Is he a friend helping build a house for Habitat [...]
As I was hiking through Umstead State Park with my family yesterday I started to look around the woods for signs of deer. Then I began to realize I was literally walking the pathways but I was unaware of it. How many times have I went hiking in the woods and missed Gods [...]
Lately I have been studying Bibliology and Hermeneutics, big words for the study of interpretation of scripture. So during this study I have a question for discussion.
Is there ever an instance where a verse of the Bible can be interpreted on its own, regardless of the surrounding context? Is there justification for quoting one verse, [...]
Football
Stick with me for a minute because there will be a football analogy, but it is one that everyone will be able to understand.
The quarterback on a football team is the guy who initially gets the ball and either throws it to someone else, or hands it off to someone else. When he steps back [...]
It strikes me that this group uses food a lot in our analogies. However, this is actually about the Philadelphia Cream Cheese commercial! Have you seen it? It’s two lady angels - one is running around because she over-slept. Her friend angel slows her down with a bagel & cream cheese. She exclaims “That slowed [...]
Dale and I like to pray occasionally to our Heavenly Mother. Who are we praying to? The phrase Heavenly Mother conjures up images of fertility figures and goddesses, but we’re thinking about the traditional God-Jesus-Holy Spirit figure. You know, white robe, white hair, staff, but no white beard.
We Jesus-followers talk about God as if God [...]
