I listened to the next sermon in Rob Bell’s Phillippian series.
Wow.
I must have read this book a hundred times. But I never saw this prayer for what it is:
And this is my prayer: that your love may abound more and more in knowledge and depth of insight, so that you may be able to discern [...]

I belong to my lover, and his desire is for me.
I’ve said before that I’m not in love with God. For me, God has always been a father figure, not a lover.
Tonight I finished reading (rereading, actually), Ted Dekker’s Circle Trilogy. These three books are among my all time favorite books, but I’ve never seen [...]

This chick knows her stuff. I wish more of us knew the same stuff.

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 [...]

The last several days have been a roller coaster for me. I did something I absolutely should not have, and it’s weighed heavily on me. At first, I didn’t care. But gradually, I began to realize the ramifications of my actions and how much I disappointed my Father. I won’t go into detail (Eph. 5:12), [...]

This is absolutely ridiculous.

It’s disgusting. Over the top. And it’s the evangelical response to the bill coming before the Senate to enforce severe punishment for “hate crimes.”
Except… the bill doesn’t really enforce punishment for all “hate crimes,” or does it?
From Harry Jackson:
This legislation will grant protected status to “sexual orientation” and “gender identity.” Further, it [...]

…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 [...]

It’s very sad when someone is arrested for feeding hungry people, but that’s exactly what happened to Eric Montanez in Orlando, FL (HT: slactivist).
A long-simmering dispute between homeless advocates and Orlando officials intensified Wednesday with the arrest of an activist feeding transients in Lake Eola Park downtown.
Eric Montanez, 21, is the first to be arrested [...]