You Gotta Love “Fuzzy” Thinkers!
Friday, June 27th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Theology | No Comments »The Pew Forum polled 35,000 people about their religious views and the result is a very comprehensive and interesting study. The good news is that 92 percent of the people believe in God. The bad news is that a majority ...
Sunbeam Road, Glory Road
Sunday, June 22nd, 2008 Posted in Theology | No Comments »This morning, as I took my prayer walk, I was inspired by the sun shining through the trees and morning mist, the shafts of light streaming down to the road. I was walking toward the beams of light, which were ...
Thoughts about God — Pt 2 — Where’s God?
Friday, June 13th, 2008 Posted in Theology | No Comments »I have a microscope, an old brass model I purchased on a garage sale. With it I look at some of the scum from my decorative pond. I'm transfixed by the tiny one-celled creatures that I see zoom about. What ...
Thoughts about God — Pt 1 — Who Made God?
Saturday, May 24th, 2008 Posted in Theology | No Comments »"Who made God?" This profound theological question often is heard coming from the lips of a small child. Just when they begin to grasp the truth of what God must be like they hit up against the incomprehensible concept that ...
Sun, Wind, and Soil
Wednesday, May 7th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Theology | No Comments »I recently took a walk in the fields and woods behind our house. The sun was setting, but was still high enough for me to feel its warm glow. I often allow the sun shining on me to remind me ...
Two Kinds of Religious Questions
Wednesday, April 30th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Theology | No Comments »I've come to the conclusion that when someone asks me a religious question it is either an open door or a locked door with which they present it. Let me explain. Someone can ask me, "Why do you believe Jesus is ...
“Spiritual” or “Religious”?
Thursday, April 24th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Theology | No Comments »"I had long claimed to be 'spiritual' but not religious," writes author Kathleen Norris of an earlier time in her life in her book Amazing Grace: a Vocabulary of Faith. It's a phrase you'll hear from many people you bump into, ...
An Eeyore or Tigger View of Life?
Sunday, April 6th, 2008 Posted in Spirituality, Theology, Thoughts about God | 2 Comments »"Each of us must make a decision, best captured in A.A. Milne's Winnie-the-Pooh characters. Am I a fun-loving Tigger or a sad-sack Eeyore?" So asks Randy Pausch in his Parade Magazine article (April 6, 2008). Randy is most famous for ...
SeeSaw Faith
Wednesday, April 2nd, 2008 Posted in Growth, Theology | No Comments »You might first think that the title of this blog entry is a negative statement, that you're braced for me writing something critical about a person's faith being a seeesaw faith. Quite the opposite! We human beings have a constant tendency ...
A God of Surprises
Friday, March 28th, 2008 Posted in A Sense of Call, Growth, Spirituality, Theology | No Comments »"The high spots of my life present themselves in retrospect as a series of surprises." So writes one of my favorite authors, 67 years a Christian, J. I. Packer (author of the best selling book Knowing God) His recent article in ...
