In a comment here, David asked:
“i’ve spent some time thinking about the topic of happiness.. how happy should we be as Christians?”
I’ve been mulling that over. I was hoping somebody else would come in and offer up some thoughts. Because I think this is far from a complete answer. But for whatever they are worth, [...]
I’ve been contemplating how much we define ourselves by the people, things, and ideas that we oppose.
For example, it’s easy to say “I’m a Christian, so I don’t…” Fill in the blank. Often times we probably fill in that blank with lots of things we are wise not to do. And other times we probably [...]
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 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 [...]
It’s interesting. I’ve never written much that was directly related to the idea of romantic relationships between Christians and non-Christians. Nonetheless, this is an area that I have some opinions about, and an area I have some experience in. There’s probably some connection between the fact that my experiences and opinions appear to be unusual ones. [...]
Consider the words “good” and the words “tough.”
There are some things which are either one or the other. Steak for example, is either good or tough. Generally it can’t be both.
There are other things which are good because they were tough. I remember a class my senior year of high school on [...]
March 28, 2008 – 10:09 am
“For there is one God and one mediator between God and men, the man Christ Jesus, who gave himself as a ransom for all men—the testimony given in its proper time.”- 1 Timothy 2:5-6
I began to contemplate and pray over that verse. The thing that jumped out at me was how differently Paul [...]
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February 28, 2008 – 8:17 pm
I posted a while ago about my life before I became a Christian. If you’re interested, it’s here:
http://jeffsdeepthoughts.wordpress.com/2008/02/27/how-i-came-to-christ-part-i-my-life-before-jesus-invaded-it/
Today I’m going to write about that night that I became a Christian. It’s a little bit like those rock groups that get labelled “overnight success stories” when in fact they’ve been working below the public’s [...]
February 21, 2008 – 12:56 pm
Patience is required for small group leaders on two different levels. Call it big-picture patience and little picture patience.
Big-picture patience is trusting in God over a period of weeks or months. There are several areas that this can be hard. One is in the area of the size of the group.
When it becomes time to [...]
February 20, 2008 – 12:36 am
There are two temptations that I’ve struggled with in my role as small group director. Both are related, in some sense, to not taking care of myself. The first way that it’s tempting not to take care of myself is that it’s tempting to not engage in critical activities like prayer and reading scripture. The [...]
