Declaring Independence

7-3-16

This weekend, our country celebrates our freedom and the people who have sacrificed to make it possible. It truly is a blessing to live in this nation with the freedoms we have. Today I’d like us to think a little about our spiritual freedom.

Can a Christian love homosexuals and not homosexuality? And is homosexuality wrong?

7-12-15 

Debate can be good. It means people are thinking and haven’t yet become robots. I consider myself to be a logical Christian. In fact, the Bible teaches that we are to study for ourselves and to verify what we are taught. In light of God’s desire for people to be life-long learners, I want to provide, to the best of my ability, a reasoned answer to the questions I posed in the title.

Limiting God

5-20-15

God is big. I mean really, really big. Infinitely big. And that's something that, as mere people, is hard to comprehend. If I could put a soundtrack on this blog post it would be Christina Perri's "Human". When our reality is that overwhelmed sense of only being able to take just so much of what life flings our way, it's far too easy to forget that God is omnipotent. All powerful. Nothing is bigger or stronger or more powerful than God. Do we let Him be big? Or do we unconsciously put Him in the same box we must accept fitting into ourselves? 

Forgiveness Like Snow

4-11-15

This past winter, I got to experience snow. A lot of it. Maybe a little more than I wanted. On the positive side, I got some pictures and some thinking out of it. Snow is used as an illustration for forgiveness in the Bible. Isaiah 1:18 says, “…’Though your sins are like scarlet, They shall be as white as snow; Though they are red like crimson, They shall be as wool.”