In a comment on my post about Jesus’ ‘new law’, Jason said:
“I would love if you could connect how true love for yourself is letting go of yourself in Christ.”
Then in my post on the Trinity, Chris asked:
“What’s your take on Trinitarian love? What theological importance does this have and thereby what practical applications are [...]

About 4 years ago I was one of the ‘leaders’ of a local Methodist Church. I was in a meeting with the pastor at the time and we were discussing ways to improve our ministry to attract more people. While we were ‘doing well’ at the time, there were a few families who had left for [...]

Here’s my humble attempt at simplifying what tends to be made into a complicated issue.
I think we can all agree that God dwells on a different plane of existence. He lives across time not in time. When we die and are with Him, we leave our earthly bodies behind and enter into an entirely different [...]

Man, I hate these things but I wouldn’t want to be classified as a bully or make Otto cry so I’ll play along.
So anyway, I’ve been tagged.
http://sharpiron.wordpress.com/ has tagged me, here are the rules:
Link to the person that tagged you, and post the rules on your blog.
Share 7 random and/or weird facts about yourself.
Tag 7 random [...]

We were studying 1 Timothy 1:1-11 in church a couple of weeks ago. As the discussion went on verses 8 and 9 really struck me:
We know that the law is good if one uses it properly. We also know that law is made not for the righteous but for lawbreakers and rebels, the ungodly and [...]

Just got this today!!! Now all you pastors out there can preach the same cloned indoctrinating sermons!!!
Think of all the pastors who can have that extra beer on Saturday night or sleep in a little later on Sunday now that thier sermon is all prepackaged for them.
Yipeee!!

Dear Buddy,
Advent is coming up, and Sojourners is ready [...]

I recently received an email promoting articles on another website. One of them caught my eye. It was entitled “God’s Tattoo”… OK so if you followed that link you’ll see it’s Today’s Christan Woman web site. That’s not a site I frequent and I’m not sure why I am on the mailing list… Go ahead [...]

OK, we’ve been doing ‘Simple Church’ for about 6 weeks now so I figured I give a quick update (for those who care and have asked).
It’s really been awesome. We have about 4 families who are starting to be fairly regular now. We have been careful to stay very organized so that it doesn’t degrade [...]