December 2011
16 posts
Working like a Fire
I am, you are, everybody is working like a fire. Do we know how fire works? It consumes, it eats, it takes in stuff and doesn’t leave anything of value behind. When does fire stop working? When it dies. We are sinners. We are tons of little fires trying to make something with what we’ve got. Is fire good or bad? Well most obviously it is both. It can burn things to ashes or it can save...
Judas In a Few Different Lights
Fair warning, this is kind of me putting into practice my idea of “questioning and challenging everything”. This post is something that might throw you off, might make you hate me, I dunno! So please, read all of it, then take it for what it is worth and apply it. Again, this is me, questioning and looking into stuff in a different light instead of just accepting everything as truth....
Betraying God One Question at a Time
First off, I give all credit to my friend and professor Matt Huett. He preached a sermon on it and I have no idea what his exact words were or what his exact ideas and themes were so I’m going to write it out in my own words as best I can and maybe I’ll have some original thoughts.
Addressing a problem:
All over the world there are Christians who are worshiping a “g”od....
Deaf Guides and Remodeling
Matthew 15:14 “Leave them; they are blind guides. If a blind guide leads a blind man both will fall into a pit.”
In our society I feel like this is almost the case. Almost. There is one major difference, these “guides” ,if you will, are not blind. They know what they are doing and they know something is off. These “guides” are just choosing to be deaf to the...
Ultimate Frisbee and The Death of my Calves
Last night was the second time I’ve played “Ultimate Frisbee” this week. This week was the first time I’ve played ultimate all semester. Now I am in some serious pain. My legs feel like they are going to revolt, cut themselves off, and run away, in addition, I am pretty sure my abs are going to kill me, I don’t know how but they are going to kill me. Now, I am up and...
Oh No! An Introvert!? I Can't Be That!
I love to think that every answer is simple. I often feel that as humans we take these simple things and severely overcomplicate them with our doctrine, theology, and our philosophical ideas. Now, there are tons of things that are complicated in life like women, astrophysics, abnormal psychology, and Einstein’s theory of relativity and these are things I generally don’t try to...
Victoria and Her Secret to Success
The name Victoria’s Secret might have to do with implications that Queen Victoria wore lingerie, I’ve heard it has something to do with an abortion, or it might have to do with the original design of the store being of a Victorian style. Now, I looked at Victoria Secret’s wikipedia file to gather this brief bit of info and I don’t really know if it is true and personally...
Southern Hospitality
What is “Southern Hospitality”? Is it real? Is it just some creepy old couple being overly friendly and open to having friends, or is it just someone giving you a fresh glass of sweet-iced-tea? Well, I am from the South and I am here to tell you that it is real, but more often than not, it is fake. Does this mean everyone in the South is a hypocrite? Nope, it doesn’t, just most...
“God creates out of nothing. Wonderful you say. Yes, to be sure, but he does what...”
– -Soren Kierkegaard
Jesus Died for Me To Die?
A.W. Tozer: “Among the plastic saints of our times, Jesus has to do all the dying, and all we want to hear is another sermon about his dying.”
As a people we Christians love to hear of Jesus’s death and resurrection. We love it so much, we have made movies about it and really, it is amazing. I love the story myself because I find it amazing, inspiring and downright awesome....
The Words of a Friend
I have a friend who wrote a message to me. He is amazing and his brain is awesome, so I’m going to repost it but he doesn’t want me to use his name. So this is from anonymous and you should most definitely read it. I have slightly edited some but basically I’ve done nothing to change his thoughts. So please, enjoy :)
The Church and Worship are two pillars that have never...
From Dirt to Stone and Back to Dust
Christianity, a religion based on the worship of a man who is fully man and fully God. He was born from a virgin and is the Savior of the world. There are approximately thirty-four denominations from protestant to Coptic and at one time there it is estimated that there were over one hundred thousand sects of Christianity (that all fall in one of these thirty-four categories). Now, even though...
Am I Worshipping an Alien Spaceship?
Worship is an act of religious devotion usually directed towards a deity. That is part of the definition as given by wikipedia and by the online Webster Dictionary. Now how far do we take this “worship” is completely up to us. Do we just sing, or just pray? Do we lift our hands? Or do we dance? Do we fall on the ground crying? Don’t those thing describe contemporary worship?...
Am I Worshipping an Alien Spaceship?
Is Church Really a Church at All?
Sometimes I go into this building, I walk in and I might shake a few hands, I go into a large room. In this room there is generally a generic music playing, I’ll listen, bob my head and move around and say hello to some more people. I might even see the guy that runs the place and if he notices me I might feel a little better about myself and think I’m more important than I am. Next...
A Cup of Coffee
I have a friend, he is actually my best friend at the college I am at, and his name is Trevor. Trevor is a very cool kid, he is odd but it is in the best of ways. Who he is, is very dependent on who he is with and how many people he is with. When in a large group he is funny and, sometimes a little uncalled for but still hilarious and when he is one-on-one with a person he can become very...
