Posts by Nathan Myrick
Serving God?
I’ve been troubled lately by the way in which we bandy around the terms “Serving God” and “Giving Glory to God”. Such terms lie at the core of Christian practice, but are largely undefined by the Christian community, leading one to ask “How do I serve and give glory to God?” There seem to be…
Read MoreContinuing Thoughts on Gender and the Semantic Breakdown of Communication
What has become obvious from my previous post on Gender is the frustrating lack of clarity in the English language. Words seem to carry different weight depending on the person reading/hearing them and the person writing/speaking them. This is due, I think, to two things. First and foremost, I believe that for Christians words have…
Read MoreThoughts on Gender
The whole issue of Gender and Gender Roles is so inextricably tied to self identity that there is no wonder that it is a sensitive topic. At some point close to our existential core we feel the need to identify with a Gender. This becomes problematic when we identify with a Gender that is not…
Read MoreSaturday Evening Post About Beer: Golden Road’s “Get up offa that brown”
Golden Road’s “get up offa that brown” was an interesting Brown Ale, but I can’t say as I liked it. For a Brown it was quite sharp, holding a long hop note at the end that I didn’t particularly enjoy. While I assume a desire for “nut brown” in this ale, I was disappointed by…
Read MoreWho is God?
I get the feeling that people consider their thoughts to be God. I get this feeling about myself as well. This seems to happen in many ways: philosophically, spiritually/religiously, emotionally, etc. I’d like to explore these a little further, and I’ll start with the spiritual/religious aspect. We as evangelicals seem to place a high emphasis…
Read MoreThe Saturday Evening Post About Beer: New Belgium’s Blue Paddle
I confess, I’m not a Lager/Pilsner guy. “Why do you keep trying them then?” you may be asking, and the answer is that I want to like them! I want to find one that tickles some nerve in my pallet or affords some pleasure here-to-fore undiscovered on a hot summer afternoon. But alas, they continue…
Read MoreWorship Thoughts For The First World
Worship cannot be too consonant, for then it becomes unreal. Just as in life dissonance not only exists, but illuminates the consonants, so it must be in worship. If life becomes too consonant we will manufacture a dissonance, or we will kill ourselves. This is evidenced by the fact that people in developing nations do…
Read MoreSin as “How”
I’ve written on this topic before, in “How vs What”, and would like to further explain how sin is truly a “how” equation instead of a “what”. I understand there to be a very limited number of “whats” in the realm of human experience. And I also understand all of those “whats” to be good.…
Read MoreForms and Meanings
I am writing this during a time of musical worship led by great friends of mine. That is an important caveat for what is to follow. I can’t connect to it. Why? Am I too far gone into some long suffering plot of doubt and questions? I don’t know. But here’s my best attempt at…
Read More“Still Darkness Waits”
An Old Poem: Like first fruits bornOf a barren wombEmpty I cameSo I was consumedThe dust drank upThe blood which calledFor the harvest of menFor long since the fall Still dreams persistLong past grey dawnThrough a chorus of soulsStill I stumble onBeneath watchful eyesSo deep and so wornLike the end of the ageThat sad, tired…
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