God, What on Earth are You Doing?
Welcome! Feel free to noodle around. I truly want this to be a resource which provides encouragement, spurs deeper thought, and gives fresh fuel for loving engagement in this wild and wonderful world of ours.
The vast majority of posts will be short and there shall be at least one new entry (but never more than three) on most days of the week.
I often say coffee is as big a part of my day as is the old morning shower. That actually is not true. Coffee is a bigger part of my daily routine than showering. Sometimes I skip the shower. No kidding.
Anyone who knows me knows I like a good, strong cup of coffee. Because it is my number one drink of enjoyment, I periodically fast from it. The longest fast was a year, but usually a week or so confirms the weakness of my flesh and the need for a deeper relationship with Christ.
For you, it may not be coffee, so ponder what that food or drink may be. If you have fasted from it, you know what I mean by the weakness of the flesh.
Imagine now how tough it would be to give up entirely what seems so natural to you. You are not supposed to give it up for a week, or month, or even a year, but a lifetime.
I don’t say this to condone homosexuality as I trust those reading this understand.
I do say it to develop greater compassion for those who face the incredibly difficult task of giving up what feels so right.
Do you fast, and if so, what have you learned about yourself? More importantly, what did you learn about God?
You are busy
I want to honor that
Therefore, I seek to be BRIEF, ENCOURAGING, THOUGHT-PROVOKING and at times HUMOR will hopefully find its rightful place
SAMPLING OF TOPICS:
What Coffee Taught Me about Homosexuality
John Calvin Blogs about John Wesley
Dallas Seminary Pastors Don’t Teach the Bible
“Business Books” and Their Common Errors (Part One of Lots)
Cynical about Cynicism
Funda-gelicals
Interpreting Scripture in a Climate-Controlled Study
John Adams Punches Tom Paine in the Nose
Loathsome, Christian Jargon
Moral Constipation
My Dinner Party for Augustine and a Few (Modern) Evangelical Leaders
Pooping Elephants, Mowing Weeds
Rob Bell Redux
The Marriage of Scot McKnight and Justin Taylor
The Worst Reader of the Bible in the World
Why the Business World Needs More Philosophers and Poets
Spiritual Vertigo
Your Family is not Your Hobby
Be gracious. Steer clear of ad hominems, sarcasm, grinding axes, and all forms of nastiness.
Be brief. Shoot for fifty words or less. Note to folks who give lengthy comments on blogs: watch how your comments are addressed more frequently by being brief.
Be teachable. All of us have much to learn. Alexis de Tocqueville observed most people “either believe things without knowing why, or do not know what it is they ought to believe.”
I will not be able to respond to every comment. When I do, I will seek diligently to follow the gracious, brief, and teachable triumvirate above.
