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New Thoughts on My Insecurities
For several years I have preached Romans 8:15-18 as a key to filling in one’s insecurities by knowing you are a son or daughter of God. If we know who we are, we won’t have to go looking for it elsewhere. The problem is, this isn’t the type of concept you can hear in a […]
Weekend Cheese: Cheetos Jesus, a.k.a. “Cheesus”
After a week of digesting heavy posts about heaven and hell, how to survive Christmas, and questioning if Jonah and the whale is fact or fiction, some of you need a good dose of the lighter side of religious cheese. Brace yourself. Prepare to be amazed. This is religious cheese in its most raw, most literal […]
Heaven & Hell. Book review of C.S. Lewis’s “The Great Divorce”
What I like best about The Great Divorce by C.S. Lewis is how he makes my mind imagine that the afterlife will actually be something tangible. While the concepts of heaven and hell are very real to most of us on a theological level, we are typically hard pressed to live with the eternal perspective […]
7 Steps to Not Waste Money, Actually Love, and Enjoy this Christmas
The New York Daily News reports that 45% of people surveyed would like to skip Christmas because of the stress it brings…Here are 7 things these people need to know: 1. Realize that the TV commercials are lying to you. Their job is to brainwash you into thinking you need something you don’t. That if […]
Jonah and the Whale: Fact, or Fictional Fish Story?
I recently posted on the question, “Am I going to hell if I don’t believe Jonah was eaten by a fish?” Our response to questions like these are very important because the credibility of the entire Bible is at stake. It is not good enough to pick and choose the parts of the Bible you […]