Christians pay for all kinds of crazy things. Go into your local Christian bookstore and there is a Jesus-ized version of every product imaginable: jeans, shirts, belts, pencils, mints, video games…you name it, they can make a Christian version of it and sell it to Christians who are willing to pay for it.
But there’s a [...]
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My friends compose a multitude of theological belief systems. While some are much more conservative, others are much more liberal. And among some of these more liberal friends there is a question about what makes the Gospel good news. The contention is this: given that Scripture teaches more will be in hell than in heaven, [...]
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The notion of a female God is nothing new.
But what is new within the past 100 years or so is the notion that the Christian God is, or should be female.
The idea of a masculine God, particularly in a patriarchal society, makes it very difficult for some people to relate to God. This is no [...]
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I recently took a friend of mine out to dinner for his birthday. As we were eating he was telling me about how he was struggling with the fact that his mentor is very ill with cancer and may be dying soon. Interestingly, when I asked him how he would take it if his [...]
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A friend and I were recently engaging in a theological discussion while smoking hookah (one of my favorite combinations) and we came to disagreement on a particular subject: will some people be punished more harshly in hell than others/will some people receive greater rewards in heaven than others?
To both questions, I answered “Yes.” To both [...]
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With the advent of postmodernism and its wide embrace in our culture, there was a backlash against it by Christians. Postmodernism brought the ultimate death in the notion of any concept of absolute truth and, therefore, God. As is often the case, when the culture swings one way, the Church swings hard to [...]
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My mother and I often get into theological debates. Well, “debate” is a strong word. We often discuss, and disagree, on many theological issues. Yesterday, for example, while riding in the car to take my wife out to lunch, we were discussing what it means when Jesus says:
So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we [...]
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Last night I met with a group of mostly strangers to talk about life, God, and everything in between. It was a very informal meeting. There were six of us sitting in Rock Bottom restaurant, each with a beer.
And we just talked.
We got to know each other a bit, figured out what each person did [...]
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Apologetics is a very popular pasttime for many Christians these days. Many have even made a career out of defending the Christian faith from the numerous philosophies, theories, and heresies surrounding the Church. These men and women set out to prove those theories wrong using science, history, and recent findings of every kind.
Chesterton was not [...]
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This is the fifth in a series of six posts that center on some thoughts I had while reading Rob Bell’s Jesus Wants to Save Christians. These entries were originally blogged at Conversant Life sometime during 2008.
Read: Part 1, Part 2, Part 3, Part 4
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Jesus Wants to Save Christians Part 5: God in a Box
What [...]
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