There are few places is the divide between the “liberal” and “conservative” Christian faith more evident than how each side understands the person of Jesus and what it means to be his disciples.
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Bible vs Bible / Spiritual Meditations
This was the next great schism in the modern Christian Church, and though it started in the Protestant churches, it crossed into the Roman Catholic Church as well.
Letting Your Faith Stall?/ Spiritual Meditations
Wouldn’t it be odd, and disappointing, if after all life’s experiences, I had not grown, changed, or gained a different perspective? Yet this is precisely what happens with some people.
Let the Main Thing be the Main Thing / Spiritual Meditations
Our desire for certainty, our need to be right, and our tendency to miss the point have conspired to keep Christians from experiencing unity.
“Claiming It” Ignores God’s Redeeming Power / Spiritual Meditations
How do we reconcile our disappointment in “unanswered” prayer with our belief in an all-knowing God?
Does God Allow Bad Things? / Spiritual Meditation
God grants us freedom to rebel against his original design, yet even as we do so, we end up ironically serving his eventual goal of restoration.
Is Religion a Crutch? / Spiritual Meditations
God’s “the inner voice of love,” is precious indwelling reminder that frees us to act as God’s beloved, beyond the reach of human praise or blame.
Only Children Enter the Kingdom / Spiritual Meditations
When Jesus said, “unless you change and become like little children, you will never enter the kingdom of heaven,” what did he mean?
Approaching the Throne in Imaginative Prayer / Spiritual Meditations
Use your mind to seek God in creative ways. Visualize yourself in a Bible story as you explore it as if you were there. Or place yourself into a different landscape or situation and allow the Holy Spirit to take you where it wills, as in this post.
God Wouldn’t Want Someone Like Me / Spiritual Meditations
In all my years of ministry, it might be one of the hardest conversations that I’ve ever had with someone. Walking up the stairs of this house for the first and only time, the smell and the screaming were something terrible. I felt as if I had been transported into the middle of the film “The Exorcist”.
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