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Further Thoughts on “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”
Further thoughts based on my post “Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’” posted here . . . In a discussion the other day with a group of fellow believers, the phrase came up, “love the sinner and hate the sin”....
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Monday Rewind ~ How to Piss Off a Christian [Let Me Count the Ways]
[Here's a second look at a post I first published on 11/19/2012] 2.3 million hits when you Google “How to piss off a Christian”; and my humble little post from May 2012 is number #2 (no pun intended ....
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A Whole New Can o’ Worms Based on “Hate the Sin”
There’s been a lot of good dialog over the past few weeks based off of a couple posts I ran entitled, “Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’”, and “Further Thoughts on ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’”. One person...
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Photo Friday ~ The Measure of a Man
Filed under: Photography, Questions on Faith, Takes (and retakes) on morality, Topics outside of religion Tagged: choosing to love, love, morality, photography, relationships, servant's heart
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Do As I Say . . .
Every morning in my email, I get a daily scripture verse sent to me and several others within our church family, from a friend and former home group member. Today’s verse seemed apropos for some of...
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Losing the Art of Conversation (or, Long Live the Flame Wars!!)
It’s been another one of those writing days when I had a beautifully crafted post all ready for uploading, and yet I stopped. The post was based off comments received from another blogging friend’s...
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Four Thoughts From Non-Christians About Christians (repost from Thom Rainer)
I couldn’t have said this any better myself. This is a great article on perceptions of Christian attitudes, evangelism, and acceptance from Thom Rainer. Several weeks ago, I wrote a post about how...
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Photo Friday ~ Family
Filed under: Grace and Spiritual Drift, Photography, Questions on Faith, Takes (and retakes) on morality Tagged: family, family gatherings, parenting, photography, relationships, religion, spirituality
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Equalizing An Unequal Yoke
2 Corinthians 6: 14 Do not be unequally yoked with unbelievers. For what partnership has righteousness with lawlessness? Or what fellowship has light with darkness? This text has been used within...
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Those People (reblogged from Jennifer Ball/Scarry Mommy)
This is a post by Jennifer Ball that I thought hit the nail on the head as far as preconceived notions of people are concerned. A little less judgment and a little more compassion goes a long way....
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Reblog: Jen Hatmaker – The Duck Thing: Is There Another Way?
Thought this was a pretty concise opinion on the whole Phil Robertson debacle. Thanks, Jen! Jen Hatmaker – The Duck Thing: Is There Another Way?.Filed under: Forging a New Path, Grace and Spiritual...
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Thoughts on Belief, From Unbelievers: He Who Has Ears To Hear, Let Him Hear
I follow several blogs on the internetosphere (it’s a word, look it up…no, don’t, it’s really not and you’ll likely just break Google) Through my random wanderings I’ve run across several comments...
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What’s All This About Relationship?
Last week’s posts (you can read them here and here, if you missed them) had to do with Faith as relationship, not science experiment. But, what exactly did I mean by relationship? Well, to begin with,...
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What’s All This About Relationship? (part two)
As I said in yesterday’s post: The purpose of following Christ—being a Christ-ian—is to give you an abiding, fulfilled life. To do that, you need relationship. You need Christ, certainly, but you also...
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World Vision, Hobby Lobby, NOAH, and the desire to remain silent.
I know, I know, I’ve been rather silent these last couple weeks and, as a Christian, it’s been a rather interesting time to remain silent. But here’s the thing: I’ve read A LOT of rhetoric on both...
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How Do You Choose to “See” Sin?
I got into a discussion the other day where the conversation moved into whether or not there was a hierarchy to the sins that man commits. Of course, a few people brought out the well-worn, “well, sin...
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Setting Down the Bible-Shaped Sledgehammer
I don’t know if I’m writing from a place of conviction, or if I’m just flogging myself unnecessarily, but it seems to be getting harder to find subjects to write about in a 5-800 word blog post lately....
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Christians: You May Now Remove Your “Jesus Fish” …Please!
My wife and I got into a conversation this morning on the implications of sticking one of those little plastic “Jesus fish” on the back of your car. Of course, the conversation was sparked by the...
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One of My Personal Addiction Triggers
I ran across a quote from Frederick Buechner the other day, and it stirred up a few thoughts: Boredom ought to be one of the seven deadly sins. It deserves the honor. You can be bored by virtually...
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A Response to the John MacArthur Controversy (I Can Hold My Tongue No Longer)
As most of my readers know, I am usually loathed to wade into the fray of hot-button topics. But this one…Oh, this one. I would have broken my jaw had I continued to bite my tongue as hard as I did on...
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