So, I’ve discovered cooking this summer.
I’m not up to anything elaborate. Actually, nearly all of it has come from a cook book Emeril made for kids. But it’s been both a yummy and interesting diversion. It occurred to me that there all sorts of interesting theological ramifications to cooking.
This first occurred to me as I [...]
I am not the sort of guy who you’d think of as a type A personality.
Maybe more like type H, for hippie-ish.
Or type Z, if Z is the opposite of A.
I don’t think of myself as the sort-of guy who always has to be going, going, going. I don’t think of myself as the sort [...]
Over at this outstanding blog, a really interesting discussion is shaping up. The issue is Orthodoxy versus orthopraxis.
Orthodoxy means “right beliefs”. For example, somebody might believe that the orthodox position is that Jesus is connected to God in some unique way.
Orthopraxis means “right actions” or “right practice”. It’s the actions undertaken by a person. For [...]
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Jesus makes all sorts of promises about how difficult it will be to follow him.
It’s easy to look at these people who will oppose us and demonize them. That’s probably part of our fallen nature: to look at those who stand in our way and ignore their humanity.
There is this whole cast of figures that [...]
O.K., but why?
There are very few things we do or feel that we can’t ask that question of. The toddler “Why” game is annoying partially because it is nearly endless. Nearly every single thing we do, we don’t do for it’s own sake. We do it because it leads to something else which leads to [...]
Yesterday, I blogged about how we like to pretend that situations are win-win, like they are easy compromises when in fact they are difficult and actually do create winners and losers. Today’s sermon at Fellowship church, given, of course, by Marty, helped to clarify my thinking in this direction and also to spur it off [...]
April 27, 2008 – 11:29 pm
So I have this confession: I managed a comic book store through most of my adolescence.
It was sort of like the Simpsons. Or that movie High Fidelity. (except that was in a record store.) Folks that were pretty low on the world’s pecking order came in and established a completely different pecking order. In the [...]
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April 23, 2008 – 12:18 pm
What is the church?
A question pregnant with other questions. When that question delivers, I think the little baby questions that will be running around it’s feet include: What did Jesus want for the church? How closely are we measuring up today? What should we do to bridge the gap between what it was supposed to [...]
April 22, 2008 – 11:56 am
The movie “Expelled” has refocused some attention on evolution, creation, intelligent design, etc.
And this attention makes me feel like somebody watching his kid at the high school talent show about to walk on the stage and publicly humiliate himself by doing something epically uncool like play a polka.
My embarassment is for my brothers and sisters [...]
April 22, 2008 – 12:33 am
I want to share some overarching thoughts about romantic relationships between Christians and non-Christians. This is my broader, more theological post on the subject. You can click here for a summary of my personal experiences on the matter. Or click here for the beginning post of a longer testimony of how I came to Christ.
Theologically [...]
