The Poor

I woke up this morning thinking about politics. A heinous admission, I know. I must have been dreaming about the immanent collapse of the “free world” or something like that. Anyway, as I was going about my morning routine, I started thinking about what is, at bottom, wrong with our present political system. A small…

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Who’s the most irreligious?

Not too many years ago I found myself uttering these incredibly cliched words: “I’m not religious, I just have a relationship with Jesus.” This was an echo of the words that I had heard time and again from my church leaders-“We’re not into religion, we’re into relationship.” So, what is “religion?” Over the years, I’ve…

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What a World

Well, it’s been a while since I’ve posted anything on this little blog of mine. I’d like to say that I’ve been busy doing cool things like playing shows or taking in some serious culture, but the truth is that I have been buried in course work for the classes I’m taking this quarter, and…

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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…

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Who 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…

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Sin 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.…

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