Our Journey to Life

Church learders are the most guilty of creating beliefs that do not take into consideration ALL the scriptures on a certain topic. Usually they do this by “teaching” from a pre-conceived idea or a negative experience, or an opinion, which is already in place — and then they open the Bible. ~~~~~~~~~~~ In a previous post I [...]

I love the book of Galatians. Recently, at least, it and the Gospels, have been my favorite. I love how Paul starts out: To the churches in Galatia: 3 Grace and peace to you from God our Father and the Lord Jesus Christ, 4 who gave himself for our sins to rescue us from the [...]

You’ve probably heard it before on TV or in a Movie. It’s a fairly popular saying: “If you want to get to her you’ll have to go through ME!” That’s a threat, of course. But it is not a threat if the person saying it has the authority and muscle to back it up! I [...]

My dad has put me in my place more times than anyone else on planet earth. And so it should be. But I’ll never forget the time he asked me the following question: “Son, do you agree or disagree with your own opinions?” I was fresh out of Bible college and knew pretty much everything. [...]

Excerpt from his blog here. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ Rachel Held Evans kindly asked me to participate in her “Rally to Restore Unity.” What follows is my contribution. – One of my favorite stories is about the great evangelist D.L. Moody when he attended an “Exclusive” Plymouth Brethren convention. The conference hosts had put up a large banner [...]

In previous post I made public apology for becoming so judgmental in my life. I attribute much of my discovery of this new focus on a Gospel of love to the writings of Gregory Boyd. Here is a wonderful excerpt from this teaching from Gregory Boyd: ~~~~~~ Judgment always blocks love, which is why the tree of the [...]

Why do I often paste scripture as a blog post? Can’t you read the Bible for yourself? I post scripture for two reasons: I just get so excited about a passage that I can’t help but share it! I hope that a little scripture as a post is an encouragement to dig into the scriptures [...]

Crazy Love: Overwhelmed by a Relentless God by Francis Chan I’ve got my friend Benjamin to thank for referring this awesome book to me! Wow, what a read. It’s more than a “read,” actually. If you let this one go in (and I’m gonna have to read it again to get even some of it [...]

Still practicing the presence of God the last couple days but it’s been busy and so it’s been challenging. But I am heeding the wise words of Boyd and not beating myself up for forgetting to remember God more often than I am. Still, it’s so good just to pause several times a day and [...]

Statements of faith do not give us Life. Only Christ gives us Life. Our “statements” tend to create more division than they do unity. Although, I do think every individual should try to scratch out a “statement” of belief, even if no one ever sees it but you. It will tell you a good deal [...]