Category Spiritual Markers

The use of profanity

At Passion 2007, John Piper, theologian and pastor extraordinaire got “down and dirty” with collegians about applying the radical words of Christ to real-life living. What he actually said was there is a siginificant difference in God disciplining his children…

Faith struggles online

Two new websites, one by someone I know personally, and another by someone I’ve just met through email and links, have recently begun websites designed to minister and create conversation for folks going through faith stuggles. Pam Cameron, UAM student…

The Golden Rule

Couched towards the end of Jesus’s revolutionary and religion-shattering Sermon on the Mount is what we have come to know as the Golden Rule. In Matthew 7.12, Jesus says, “Therefore, whatever you want men to do to you, do also…

A theological quiz

You scored as Evangelical Holiness You are an evangelical in the Wesleyan tradition. You believe that God’s grace enables you to choose to believe in him, even though you yourself are totally depraved. The gift of the Holy Spirit gives…

What do you see?

I’m still enjoying John Ortberg’s book, God Is Closer than You Think, and was intrigued and moved by a simple page turn this morning. Isn’t life like that? One moment you see words on a page, black on white. You’re…