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One of the frustrations of writing my poor, little blog is that sometimes I write something that I think could be really important to people and because of my tiny reach into the blogosphere, it passes by mostly unnoticed. A couple of weeks ago I wrote an essay on what I called New Fundamentalism which was one of those posts. See, over the years I … Continue reading Check this out!
Stages of Forgiving
As far as the east is from the west, I will remove your sins from you. – God That’s the offer of forgiveness we all want to take. But when it comes to forgiveness between us humans, as far as the east is from the west is a bit much to contemplate. God knows this. In fact, when the disciples were told that they had … Continue reading Stages of Forgiving
When Someone You Love is Making a Big Mistake
Sometimes someone you know is doing something that any idiot – yourself included – can see is heading for disaster. Most likely the person doing this knows that everyone thinks they are making a huge mistake. (If they don’t, if you are any sort of friend you need to be brave enough to gently raise it with them.) Once they know that others do not … Continue reading When Someone You Love is Making a Big Mistake
An Argument In Support of an Angry God
One of the modern criticisms of Christianity is that God seems different in the Old Testament than in the New. In the Old Testament, God is wrathful, commits genocide, is angry, etc, etc. Then in the New Testament he shows up and says, “love!” I have long held that it was the people who changed, not God. Maybe people were more civilized by the time … Continue reading An Argument In Support of an Angry God
Steps to Forgiveness
Forgiveness is absolutely essential, but sometimes our hurts are just so big. Here are some steps I have found useful in getting to a point of forgiveness. 1. Be realistic about your pain and what it is you are forgiving. If you are angry, be angry. If you are hurt, be hurt. Don’t pretend it’s not as bad as it is. If you are destroyed, … Continue reading Steps to Forgiveness
Change and Brain Habits
So often, we mean to change, but our brain won’t cooperate. We will do our best to let go of or forgive something only to have the same thoughts and feelings show up again and again. Or we determine to do or not do something but we keep getting pulled off course by forgetfulness or temptation or habit. If we don’t know better, we will … Continue reading Change and Brain Habits
Don’t get upset over things you can’t control!
I don’t know if it’s just a quirk of my personality or if someone dropped me on my head as a child, but I always feel responsible for everything. I feel like if I was only good enough at managing all aspects of my life, my house would always be clean, I would never be late, laundry would never pile up, my children would never … Continue reading Don’t get upset over things you can’t control!
Ways To Pray For An Enemy
1. “Lord, please make this idiot stop being a moron.” 2. “Lord, please help this person stop doing terrible things.” 3. “Lord, please turn this person’s heart towards you so he can change.” 4. “Lord, help me show this person your ways through how I deal with him.” 5. “Father, if it fits with your will, please bring a miracle to … Continue reading Ways To Pray For An Enemy
I think about weird things
. At the very end of my book The Upside Down World – A Book of Wisdom in Progress, I have a section which I called “Quantum Christianity”. It consists of several pages of fairly random notes about a variety of subjects ranging from quantum physics to abortion. I don’t usually makes notes, but I do usually think about a variety of odd things. I … Continue reading I think about weird things
Perspective
We often have a hard time accepting the difference between how we feel and what is true. Feelings themselves aren’t wrong, they just tend to point in the wrong direction if left untrained. But our feelings are meant to lead us, so it’s worth it to take the time to start training them to line up with reality. The best way I know how to … Continue reading Perspective
The Upside Down World 