Discipleship/Spiritual Formation
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“I have often said that the sole cause of man’s unhappiness is that he does not know how to stay quietly in his room.” (Pascal) We have all the conveniences of technology, only to keep us more distracted than ever. We were supposedly using all this wonderful technology to free us up for more noble,… Read more
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Chuck Colson is incredibly articulate. He engages the culture. This article speaks to the First Amendment and the eroding place of Christianity in our culture. While I am not convinced of his comments regarding the differences between “freedom of religion” and “freedom of worship,” I am convinced we can reach a day where our government… Read more
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I am fresh off a trip to Las Vegas. I haven’t been there in about 15 years. Another 15 years is just fine with me. Business took me out there the first time. This time it was the Kiwanis International Convention. Vegas is still quite the place. I find myself completely mystified as to why… Read more
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Who woulda thunk it? This Ross Douthat column in the New York Times reflects on the popularity of so many mystical practices, but it has its downside. We are dabbling in so many things, we are diving into nothing. We are not fully entering into ANY of the practices, so we might think we are… Read more
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I am attending my first Society for Pentecostal Studies meeting, mainly because it is on the campus where I teach. The event has been a good one for me. The sessions have been a learning experience. I am keeping track of big words I need to look up later. 🙂 A plenary session I attended… Read more
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As I teach Old Testament and New Testament at a college level, at I am continually amazed at how little “Christian” students know the stories. This presents a question I simply want to ask and see if there might be any discussion: Is it intellectually dishonest to say you are a Christian and then never… Read more
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I admire people who write well, and say things I try to say. When I write them it’s just not very fluid. This post on “Jesus and me broke up” is outstanding. It encapsulates my thoughts on what is going wrong in American Christianity. We have a Christianity that isn’t about Jesus. It’s about “me.”… Read more
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I am working my way through Thomas Merton’s Seven Storey Mountain again. I am not good at re-reading many books, but this one I’ve ready probably 5 times. It is his story of coming to faith and entering the monastery as a Cistercian brother. As he came to faith, he struggled his first year. He… Read more
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We just need boredom. Our enemy is not interested in our utter rejection of the gospel if we are simply bored with our Christianity. I ran across this great C.S. Lewis quote from The Screwtape Letters: If you can once get him to the point of thinking that “all religion is all very well up… Read more
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This next semester I get the shot at teaching a subject I have been desiring to teach for quite some time: CHURCH HISTORY. I get to teach one section covering the early church to the Reformation, then another section covering the Reformation to today. I want to cover key figures in both sections. Church History… Read more
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