Why does Christ heal one man of paralysis and warn him to “stop sinning”, and yet later he heals a blind man and teaches that infirmity is not the punishment for sin?
Making yourself “sick with sin”?? The curious case of the paralytic at Bethesda.
June 6, 2012 by 6 Comments
The False Price of Christian Membership
June 5, 2012 by 24 Comments
Ah, the silly father’s of the early church. So lost so confused. So sad. They really mucked up a lot of things for the rest of us from the very beginning.
How spoiled manna can teach us the beauty of death.
June 4, 2012 by 8 Comments
What if God, choosing to show his wrath and make his power known, bore with great patience the objects of his wrath—prepared for destruction?- Romans 9:22
This phrase still makes me pause, because I don’t have all that great of a relationship with the “fire and brimstone” God. God is love, not wrath.
But what then do we do with such a characterization of the Lord? Do we ignore it? Or do we mediate upon it until we can see the light of hope and love even within the darkest of passages.
I say the latter.
A Funny Kind of Resurrection: Easter Sunday
April 8, 2012 by 15 Comments
He is Risen! But, chances are you won’t recognize that fact. For the real nature of Yeshua’s resurrection is quite unexpected. It’s a funny kind of thing…
Good Friday: The Day God Saved Us From God?
April 6, 2012 by 31 Comments
Today across the world, people will hear that Jesus died to save us from death and wrath. God’s wrath. Well, this is a lie. This is wrong. And I’ll show you how.
Newsweek: Forget the Church. Follow Jesus.
April 4, 2012 by 50 Comments
Newsweek’s Andrew Sullivan has declared a revolution has begun within Christianity. I couldn’t agree more. Walk away from the old, start something new.
Finding my home by leaving it…
March 20, 2012 by 34 Comments
The Spark has been set… I never in a million years would have thought that the “goodbye video” I made last Tuesday (about my choice to no longer be “Christian” and walking away from the church as it exists today) would have generated such a response. I have been put back on my heels a [...]
Why I Am No Longer Christian – Walking Away From the Church
March 13, 2012 by 171 Comments
My attempt to explain why I haven’t been writing and what’s been going on in my head over the last 3 months.
Fear of DOG
December 27, 2011 by 17 Comments
Yesterday at my uncle’s house, Xander, a delightfully energetic yellow lab, came bounding out of the door when we arrived.
Ella is terrified of dogs.
Trystan loves all dogs.
