Can A Child Do It
One of the things I really love about Jesus is that he focused so much on engaging what my friend Kathy would call, “little pockets of love.” He engaged people’s faith but arguably spent more time simply loving on people in their space of brokenness. Matthew 18:3 – And he said: “Truly I tell you, unless you change and become …
Wrestling With Hope
“I am a university student who follows Jesus.” The above video is an interesting take on what it’s like as a university student in today’s generation, and wrestling with all this it is to be human. Thoughts? PS: Sorry for any confusion. The voice in the video is not mine. A friend sent me the video link.
A Very Merry Christmas
Today we celebrate the birth of God among us. Much love my friends.
When A Pastor Gets Stuck
Being a pastor is hard, especially when you don’t believe what you’re selling. My recent post, which shared a story about a friend wrestling with the universal nature of grace, stuck a chord in so many people. What do you do when you no longer believe what you are selling. For my friend it was incredibly hard. He was a …
Confronting The Universal Nature Of Grace
This is not a post about universalism. ;-P About fourteen years ago a friend of mine, who was a pastor at a very large (1,700) church, confided that he was secretly a universalist. He believed everyone was reconciled to God through grace. When I heard the word my mind immediately shut off from the rest of what he was saying …
The Final Judgment
This post isn’t about Rob Bell. Seriously. Rob Bell has a new book coming out about heaven and hell. It’s called Love Wins. I can imagine it will sell like hotcakes because people have been wondering aloud for a long time what Rob really thinks about the nature of reconciliation, and if he a universalist. It’s an easy trick to …
Straight From The Horses Mouth
I was thinking about the word “Christian” when I came across this quote: All words, then, belonging to the inner world of the mind, are of the imagination, are originally poetic words. The better, however, any such word is fitted for the needs of humanity, the sooner it loses its poetic aspect by commonness of use. It ceases to be …
The Need For Religion
Some people do need religion. My friend Mike Todd shares some thoughts about our tension with growth played out in the idea of evolution. “The fundamental question in this line of thought is whether or not you believe in evolution. The evolution of humanity, of consciousness, of thought, and of faith. I’ve said before that I believe that God never …
Giving God’s Story Another Try
Cheryl Dack found my book through a conversation on Scot McKnight’s blog. She is the guest editor for Porpoise Diving Life and agreed to review it for a forthcoming issue. Cheryl walked away from Christianity several years ago and after reading my book is considering what that means in her life. These are the reasons why I spent so many …
Why Are Christians Judgmental?
So I was talking with a friend who is an atheist, and she said that one of her bigger reasons for not being associated with the Christian faith was that Christians are so judgmental. Her response was not new. In fact in the book “UnChristian” by Kinnaman and Lyons, judgmental was one of the six qualities that defined the perception …
