Lent 2010: Pause
I am out of town at an intensive workshop and cannot finish or post my writings. I will do that beginning on Monday. May God continue to touch you during your Lenten experience. Grace and peace.
Categories: Lent 2010
Lent 2010: Day 6 – Context is Everything
We are examining the Parable of the Prodigal God (the father in the parable about the dissolute and proper sons – Luke 15:11-32) as discussed by Timothy Keller. What he wants us to learn from this passage turns on the…
Categories: Christianity, Lent 2010, Religion
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…
Categories: Christianity, Lent 2010, Religion
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
