Doubts About Grace
Yesterday I had a very intense conversation with a good friend about hell. Not the location but the state. You see my friend had fallen into hell, grasping to the last shred of evidence that she was worth it, yet just as willing to give in to the reality that she wasn’t. She could understand the idea that God loved …
Three Approaches To Pain And Suffering
“Ignorance is bliss.” English poet Thomas Gray Yesterday I tweeted an old thought that came to mind a couple of years ago. It said, “Which is better, to be happily deceived or disillusioned, yet aware?” So much of my life over the last 10 years has been about wrestling with my own disillusions, yet aware that they exist. And as …
Striving vs Diligence
Life isn’t what it used to be. In the last year I started a publishing company, moved to a different house, started a new community group, and allowed some significant relationships to just be, even though the cost was the virtual loss of those relationships. In the past, I’ve spent a lot of time trying to make things happen. This …
Question To Ponder
A Buddhist, a Muslim, an Atheist, a Homosexual, and a Christian all die on the same day. They stand before God on judgment day. God reveals the truth of His love to each, giving them the fullest awareness of what Jesus did on the cross. Each one chooses to accept that reality seeing it as the love of God. Which …
Who Is The Real Judge
Moreover, the Father judges no one, but has entrusted all judgment to the Son, John 5:22 For God did not send his Son into the world to condemn the world, but to save the world through him. John 3:17 We are!
Emotional Projection
“The crap is what makes things grow.” So I’m going through some tough stuff right now in my personal and professional life. A lot of my life looks very different from just 14 months ago. This year has been hard emotionally. In some ways my life has required me to look at some things very deeply and ask some very …
Need Your Help
So I’ve been contemplating a really big project and I need your help. When I wrote Discovering the God Imagination, one of the questions I didn’t really dig into was the concept of hell. I touched briefly on it to an extent but not in a way that was meant to redefine it. And it also ended up being the …
Is It Already Simple
Everything complex eventually becomes simple…with enough time. But when it becomes simple, was it always already simple?
The Internet Is My Religion
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