In searching around for churches in this area, obviously I'm looking at their websites.  I'm studying a few things, particularly the...

The church I visited today had a baptismal ceremony. And as I've thought for a very long time now about the sacrament and is often the c...

I wish that I could tell you, faithful readers (all two of you) that my spiritual life is one that has been a beautiful one.  A life that ha...

The other week I shared on here that I had  put my beloved Yoda puppet signed by "Weird Al" Yankovic up for auction on eBay .  It ...

This post is going to honk a lot of people off, probably.  Whether it cuts one way or another.  I know and accept that. First of all, the ol...

Watching The Chosen  (see here and here ) has reignited my desire to study the gospels with a historian's eye.  I started with the Book...

A thought: Earth is the only world out of countless trillions spread across the universe that holds the perfect conditions for life, be...

God is not a bureaucrat. Salvation does not derive from procedure.

I most want to do what God would have me to do. I also want to be happy, and I know that true happiness is only found in whatever it is that...

Salvation is not achieved by the pursuit and acquisition of knowledge. Salvation is achieved by the desire for and pursuit of Christ. Only ...

Christ is the only path toward finding God. But, there are many paths toward finding Christ. Who am I, then, to say that how another another...

Righteousness before God must be desired before it can be deserved.

As if the Being Bipolar series wasn't enough: I'm about to put even more on this blog on a regular basis! (Maybe it has something ...

"Following Christ means to be a witness, not be a prosecutor". Very, very true. And the more that I've thought about it, the ...

"No Christian theology can claim to speak the last word about God and God's relation to human beings and the world. Every theology ...

Why do some people express such bitter disagreement about when exactly Jesus was born? Seems the important thing is that Jesus was born at a...

God will always take us just as we are, and if we let Him then He will always make us more than we were.

Regardless of who we are, in the end God gives each of us nothing less than what we most sincerely desire. If we desire God, He abundantly ...

Owning a Bible makes one no more righteous than owning a bicycle makes one Lance Armstrong.

It is impossible to praise God when we boast of ourselves... and even more impossible to praise God when we boast against others.