Finding The Lust of Your Life
If you’re a married Christian person looking for a way to ditch your spouse who doesn’t understand who you truly are, I’ve got some bad news. Biblical marriage requires you to keep breaking your own heart. You must force yourself to genuinely care about your spouse. Force yourself to be faithful. Force yourself to be […]
Encouraging Thoughtful Encouragement
Christian people are constantly encouraged to be encouragers. Whenever we find someone who is ‘going through rough times,’ we’re obliged to say: “God’s got this!” and “God won’t give you more than you can bear!” Whenever we find someone in despair, we think it’s our job to lift them up with a wave of enthusiastic […]
Fools Mock Research
You won’t find a more hypocritical group of folks than the self-described atheists. They proudly proclaim their love of science. They speak of the importance of asking lots of questions to challenge your presuppositions. They’ll tell you that education is a lifelong process. They wax eloquent on the virtue of adapting your beliefs to accommodate […]
Judge Not And Be Useless
“John, you jerk!! Why are you writing about judging again???!!!! You’ve written about it a thousand times!!!! Get over it already!!!” You have a point. When I posted a quote from R.C. Sproul about Christians having no reason to be smug, I wasn’t expecting a lecture about how the ‘vast majority of Christians love to […]
Your Amateur Opinion Of Experts Bores Me
Since you started this silly game, I’ll play along. Are you an expert on the subject of experts? No? Well… …this may come as a shock to you, but your opinions about experts really do matter less than my own. You don’t know any more about experts than I do. In fact, you apparently know […]
Persecuted By The Pastor
Maybe your pastor says stuff like this. If he/she/they/them/zee/zir/whatever does, you have my permission to send them this note with my name attached. (You don’t have to attach my name if you’re okay being told that you’re what’s wrong with church.) Dear Clergy-Identifying-Person, We, the church, are being told (by YOU) that following Jesus means […]
I’m Special So Meet My Needs!
I learned something new! Neurodiversity is what it means to be ‘different in my own special way.’ That means, I am Neurodiverse! So…if you claim to be a caring person, you have to listen to everything I say and accommodate my special needs (and even though, by definition, you’re neurodiverse too; this is about me […]
It Matters to Me What You Believe
Chris Stedman walked away from Jesus and then wrote a book about how to hang around with people who didn’t. He’s gotten some praise from a few noteworthy personalities like Frank Schaeffer (who also walked away from Jesus). “Stedman the atheist … lays the groundwork for constructive engagement between all of us—no matter what we believe…or […]
To Build The Impossible Bridge
How many nights have you spent wide awake, pondering the question, “Who will bridge the divide between atheists and the religious?” How many anguished hours have you fretted that the Bible might actually be correct and there is no common ground between good and evil? Well, a guy who quit Christianity wrote a book about […]
Hey Christian! Where is Jesus?
I commented under the prose from Tennessee Williams, “This doesn’t give credit or thanks to the source of love which is outside of ourselves and does not need to be saved from burning buildings.” The page owner who posted it responded, “Its also inside of ourselves. And God is love. Love is God by another […]