photo © 2009 Heather Kennedy | more info (via: Wylio) Can you believe this? I’m reading through R.C. Sproul’s classic book ‘The Holiness of God’ and he has this quote from Martin Luther describing his own conversion. This could have been a page right from this very blog. Check it out: “I greatly longed […]
photo © 2010 Avia Venefica | more info (via: Wylio) Once there was a young man who arrived at a banquet hall. He looked in the window and saw everyone smiling, sipping wine, eating hors d’oeuvres, dancing, and conversing with one another. He came to the door and realized that it seemed to be locked. […]
photo © 2008 Wolfgang Staudt | more info (via: Wylio) Two guys were standing at the edge of a great canyon, a huge gaping gash in the earth. They stood on the edge of the cliff, looking down to the tiny ribbon of the great river flowing so far below. It was a bit […]
Repentance in the New Testament is the English word translated as ‘metanoeo’, which occurs in the NT 54 times. ‘Meta’ means, with, or after, while noeo means to understand, perceive, consider, think. So we can understand the word to mean, to live after pondering, to change after consideration. One might observe simply by the nature […]
First I have a confession to make. I am not a theologian, nor am I trained in any kind of official academic sense. I come reluctantly to the table, because I seek truth and in the real world truth must be culled out and defended against the opinions of men and certain false ideas of […]
[vimeo 9078364 w=400 h=225] Nuit Blanche from Spy Films on Vimeo. I saw this on Peter Rollins site, and I was so impacted by it, I had to share it here. It is a perfect parable concerning Christ and the Church and the nature of faith in a largely ugly world. Here are my thoughts […]
“”And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.” Deuteronomy 8:3, NASB. […]
“”And He humbled you and let you be hungry, and fed you with manna which you did not know, nor did your fathers know, that He might make you understand that man does not live by bread alone, but man lives by everything that proceeds out of the mouth of the LORD.” Deuteronomy 8:3, NASB. […]
I’ve been reading some new things and surfing a lot of Christian blogs because I have this blog and I figure I should try to fit into some kind of community. I have to admit something: I hate most of it. I’m honestly not proud of it, it is more of a confession. Half the […]
Taking ideas from the last post, there is another idea that formed for me. God, who creates universes with an utterance, who owns everything and if that isn’t enough can create more, and Jesus His son, who feeds 5000 with a few loaves and a word of thanks, had a key problem. How could He […]