A while back, I posted this video. I love it. It moves me everytime I hear it. I’m reposting it because I finally got around to typing out the full monologue – no matter how many times I googled it, I couldn’t find it anywhere. So here’s the video and the monologue.

I am a woman. [...]

Brian Orme talks about the difference between the outside Jesus and the inside Jesus – and why we need to get back to the outside.
There are two aspects of Jesus’ life and mission: His inside ministry and his outside ministry. His inside ministry was focused on his life with the disciples, those close to him, [...]

This is incredible. It’s passionate. It’s true. It’s beautiful.
 

Most of you know that I’m just coming out of the throes of a crisis of faith (short lived as it was). One of the things I realized during this time was that it wasn’t God I was trying to turn my back on (though it seemed it would be much simpler to do so)–it [...]

Today I read Philippians. This book is more about Paul than anything else. In reading it today, I was struck with the thought that Paul was, perhaps, a bit prideful. I don’t know that for sure, and I feel like I shouldn’t be saying that about the man who wrote the majority of the new [...]

At my church, we’re going through these classes called Life Journey Classes. They’re divided into five 3 hour sessions:

Rescue 101 – My commitment to Jesus…
Jesus came, “To Save what was Lost.” – Luke 19:10
“Whoever enters through Me (Jesus) will be Saved.” – John 10:9
Connect 201 – My commitment to my local church family…
“Love one another…As I [...]

Interrogate the Legalist Within: 
Pause for a moment and remember.
Remember where you were, and what it was like … that moment when you understood the cross for the first time … when you really grasped what happened at Calvary, and what it truly means that Christ died for your sins, what it truly means to [...]

…including the insane horrible ignorant people from Westboro Baptist Church. If you can stomach it…they’ve done a music video. Yes, you read that right…a music video for a song called “God Hates the World.” (HT: Zach)

Uh….no.
For God so loved the world that he gave his one and only Son, that whoever believes in him shall [...]

The current issue of Newsweek has an interesting debate between Sam Harris and Rick Warren. I’m not going to go into detail about the arguments between the two, but I do want to highlight Rick’s final thoughts.
I believe in both faith and reason. The more we learn about God, the more we understand how magnificent [...]

Something about my faith (the noun, not the verb) grows everytime I read new articles from the Burnside Writer’s Collective. This time it’s an article about Hispanic services at church. Jeff wrote the article in response to a friend who remarked that churches with Hispanic services support illegal aliens.
Before I proceed, I want to admit [...]