This is an incredibly timely and profound article written by the Chief Rabbi Jonathan Sacks. I believe this is the first time I have posted someone else’s article on my blog, Yes, its that good. http://www.spectator.co.uk/features/8932301/atheism-has-failed-only-religion-can-fight-the-barbarians/ “I love the remark made by one Oxford don about another: ‘On the surface, he’s profound, but deep down, […]
“Time is Money” is one of the most rehearsed phrases in the English speaking world. We are all well familiar with what it is suppose to mean, but what is the story beneath the surface of the person who says it with all seriousness? Sometimes one’s “story” is clearly seen by the phrases he chooses […]
This is a topic I’ve thought about frequently. I’m not sure how many Word of Faith Christians I’ve known in my life, but from the various churches I attended and graduating from Oral Roberts University—twice— I’m sure the number is in the thousands. With the advent of online social networking I’ve had the opportunity to […]
“How can we learn to know ourselves? Never by reflection, but by action. Try to do your duty and you will soon find out what you are. But what is your duty? The demands of each day” (Goethe). “Try to do your duty and you will soon find out what you are.” Well, you don’t […]
It was not my choice, I was born a polygamist. Sure, my sexual orientation for multiple women took years to develop, but once it developed, boy did it develop. As a teenager I could not image loving only one woman for the rest of my life, I was in love with tons of women from […]
“When it comes to God’s Grace, ‘our part’ is to realize that we have no part.” I happened across this phrase on an old friend’s Facebook page recently. If you’ve never heard this line, or something like it, then you didn’t grow up in the churches I grew up in. For many, it may not […]
The tradition of hating tradition is a phenomenon found in abundance among many Christians today. Having spent 19 years in the independent Evangelical movement, I know the dizzying freedom one feels when he rejects “religious tradition” in the name of “having a personal relationship with Jesus,” as if the two were mutually exclusive. In my […]
