I saw this quotes as I was reading a review and extensive dialogue about the new Rob Bell book, Love Wins. I won’t comment on the book based on the reviews of others–I do hope to read it when it comes out. Â Because of the popularity of Rob Bell and his considerable communication skills, his …
Category: Musings
Teaching Descernment and Information Overload
I’ve been thinking about the lack of general discerning and wondering how we teach ourselves and other to be discerning. We have greater access to information and more information than we have ever had, but information and wisdom or information and decrement are not the same thing.  Too much information may actually be a detrimental to decision making and discernment. Newsweek The …
Unity–a follow up
I posted a quote on “unity” yesterday. KF posted a comment question that I think is not only worth engaging with, but to create another post from. So…since the evidence of pianos being in tune is the lack of dissonance (that peculiar sound harmonic that waves over the listener able to be heard by even …
Prayer: Keep me
This is the first in an occasional series seeking to learn from the prayers of others. I hope to include prayers from church fathers, puritans, reformers, contemporary theologians and pastors. I will also periodically include key prayers from Scripture. This first prayer is one I have prayed for many years. I don’t remember where I …
Critical Thinking
Recently I did some reading about why some teens and young-adults leave the church or their faith (two different issues) and why others stay both connected to Christ and church. There have been a number of studies, books and blog posts. (Not all blog post understand the data and therefore their concussions are not correct, …
Paradox of Christmas
Infinite, and an infant– eternal, and yet born of a woman– Almighty, and yet hanging on a woman’s breast– supporting the universe, and yet needing to be carried in a mother’s arms– king of angels, and yet the reputed son of Joseph– heir of all things and yet the carpenter’s carpenter’s despised son Charles Spurgeon
Amazed by Grace, a sign of spiritual vitality
I just finish teaching a lesson on confession, forgiveness and restoration–the story of David and Bathsheba (2 Samuel 11-12; Psalm 51 and 31). I was focusing more on David’s confession than on his sin. One of the points that we discussed was the bestowal of mercy and grace by God (preserving David’s life and loving …