Lent 2010: Day 5S – A Lenten Epiphany
Sundays are not counted in the forty days of Lent, so the count marks time, hence today is Day 5S (S for Sunday). Now that we got that out of the way, today we began our Sunday morning Adult Lenten…
Categories: Christianity, Lent 2010, Religion
Lent 2010: Day 4 – Dealing With the Unexpected
This morning our Knowing God study was supposed to tackle Chapter 14: God the Judge. It begins a difficult 3 chapter section that deals with the not fun stuff: judgment, wrath, and goodness and severity. Not light material (not that…
Categories: Christianity, Lent 2010, Religion
Lent 2010: Day 3 – Changing Course
I have always believed that Lent was about changing course in some aspect of your life. That is why I posted about path dependency yesterday, since it affects your course change efforts, or as we Christians like to say, your…
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Lent 2010: Day 2 – Path Dependency
Path Dependency (PD) is where the decision you are facing at any given moment is limited or influenced by your decisions in the past, even though the past circumstances that led to that decision may no longer be relevant. In…
Categories: Christianity, Lent 2010, Religion
Ash Wednesday 2010
Today is Ash Wednesday, and while a large number of Christians do not participate in Ash Wednesday (most Anabaptist and Pentecostal churches), some of you might have noticed today that there are people walking amongst us who have a black…
Categories: Christianity, Culture & Social Issues, Lent 2010, Religion
Revival
If your faith needs a lift today, watch this video…better yet, watch it on your knees and like the young man in the barn talked about in the presentation, pray with him asking, “God are my hands clean?” I know…
Categories: Art, Literature and Entertainment, Christianity, Religion
Knowing God Outside of Jesus
What are the limits for knowing God outside of Jesus Christ?
Categories: Christianity, Knowing God, Philosophy, Science
The Road Less Traveled: Knowing God – The Beginning
As we embark with J. I. Packer on our journey through Knowing God, we are taking the ‘road less traveled.” Ths phrase comes from a poem by Robert Frost (Mountain Interval. 1920. The Road Not Taken). Two roads diverged in…
Categories: Christianity, Knowing God 2009
Worship is a Verb
One of the differences between biblical worship and what passes for the same thing in the Christian Church today can be seen in the difference between the verb (biblical) and the noun (much of today's Christianity). Biblically worship is what…
Categories: Christianity
Knowing God: New Study Beginning September 17, 2009
I will be studying Knowing God with a group of five men beginning this fall. As a result I have been working on my study materials and have decided to do another online Knowing God Study. If you are interested…
Categories: Knowing God 2009
