The routine of the Christian life

January 7, 2010

I periodically read a blog by “Pastor Brad,” who provides me with some great insights about the Christian Life.  He recently published a sermon that contained the following: A lot of us begin our Christian lives with that kind of burning desire, don’t we? Our hearts are thrilled with this new life and we are [...]

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Is God, God? Is God loving? If so, then what?

January 5, 2010

Image by RA McCluskey via Flickr Let’s say that God is God, i.e., knows everything, can do anything, and so forth.  Let’s say that God is love.  What then? Can God do anything bad to us?  Can God do anything bad for us?  I think not.  What do you think? If it is true that [...]

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You are God and I am not….

January 4, 2010

I recently stated that God cannot have a relationship with an imperfect person.  This is a difficult topic to discuss because our sense of civility tells us that a value judgment is being made.  Value judgments are not well regarded in our culture at the moment, because we want to believe that everyone is perfect, [...]

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Commitment

December 27, 2009

We were recently discussing the concept of “commitment” in the Christian life.  Several issues arose.  Among them: Is it appropriate for church leaders (preachers) to repeatedly ask congregants to “recommit” their lives to Christ? Is it appropriate for Christians to “recommit” periodically? What is “commitment” in the Christian life? The word “commit” looks to me [...]

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