Archive for the ‘Spirituality’ Category
Some Random Thoughts
The last few weeks have been a roller coaster, spiritually. I’ve succeeded, then failed, then recovered, only to fail again. I’ve spent a lot of time in the metaphorical sunshine, only to fall gain and feel like a failure. In all of it, I’m amazed at God’s forgiveness. His mercy is new every morning. I’ve […]
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Open Mouth, Insert Foot
To provide some context, like most American Christians, I’ve had more hands-on experience with the New Testament than the Old one… I mean, I’ve read almost the entire NT if not all of it, but my knowledge of the OT is mostly second hand. As far as the OT goes, I’ve always had a jist […]
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Tags: Bible, Jesus, New Testament, Old Testament, Peter
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Tags: Father, Jesus, psalm
Some Thoughts on Free Speech
These are some common-sense ideas that I took the time to write as they seem to be called into question in the controversial discussions surrounding events like “Blasphemy Day” and “Draw Muhammed Day” (which today–5/20–has been unofficially dubbed)—events organized to offend people to remind them that free speech protects offensive speech. However, it is my opinion […]
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Tags: Blasphemy Day, censorship, consequences, Draw Muhammed Day, free speech, freedom, offensive, responsibility
Setting The Record Straight
Using your political party to further God’s kingdom is great. Using God’s kingdom to further your political agenda is downright blasphemous. To insinuate that entering God’s kingdom is not only dependent upon Jesus’ testimony concerning you but also upon your ability to fit in with American conservative evangelical Christian culture is a terrible lie. Jesus […]
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Tags: America, American Christianity, Bible, blasphemy, conservative, God, Gospel, homosexuals, Jesus, Kingdom of God, liberal, Muslims
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Tags: absolute truth, God, moral relativity, opinion, purpose, relative truth, truth
Social Justice
I was reading through a CNN article today in which an evangelical Christian leader responds to Fox News’ Beck’s instruction to Christians to leave Churches that preach social justice (because apparently Jesus was against social justice?). Anyways, the evangelical Christian leader states that social justice is at the heart of Jesus’ message and says some […]
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Tags: America, conservative, faith, liberal, social justice, taxes
Persecution?
So I was listening to Pandora today to a more-or-less “Christian” playlist when I heard this advertisement about persecution and indoctrination of Christians on campuses in America. By indoctrination, I assume it means “education” that in some way goes against Christian doctrine or questionably presumes something to be true without considering alternative viewpoints. The advertisement […]
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Tags: "Christian", Bible, campus, Christ, Christianity, ChristianityToday, college, cross, discrimination, hatred, Jesus, love enemies, persecution, SpeakUpMovement, university
Some Thoughts On Blasphemy Day
So today is September 30–happy Blasphemy Day. If you’ve done any poking around my site, it will be painfully obvious that I’m not an atheist or agnostic, but I do have hope for today. First, some background. I’m ill-educated on the matter, but from what I understand, the purpose of B-day is to strike out […]
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Tags: Blasphemy Day, Christ, Christianity, Jesus, Love, pride, religions, rights, sacrilegecross
I’m right, right?
It’s better to become right than to be right. When you become right, you seek to change your views to accommodate the truth. When you try to BE right, you try to change the truth to accommodate your views. This is one of the differences between humility and pride.
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Tags: humility, pride, right, truth
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