Category Spiritual Markers

Deep love (1 Peter 4)

Above all, love each other deeply… 4.8 The apostle tells us to to love each other as an overarching command. It is to be our regular “attitude” (4.1) and the default of our Christian core. When life has gotten hectic,…

The value of dirt…

Randy has done it again over at Stuff I Think. A short, brief entry that makes me scratch my head, and go, “Wow.” Multiply… I’ve made a “private” entry over at multiply.com for “family and friends.” My address there is…

Is Christianity rational?

Over at Pyro, Dan Phillips weighs in with a provocative post about the rationality of Christianity. He distinguishes between rationalism and rationality, a helpful distinctive, for his case that, “If it isn’t rational, it isn’t Christianity.” I deeply appreciate Pyro’s…

Mental weeding

I am continuing my study of 1 Peter and hope to post a more lengthy commentary on it in the days to come, but today I was stopped dead by one phrase in one verse, 1 Peter 2.6: The one…

1 Peter revisited

This 1 Peter reading is turning into more of an interactive Bible study, so if you still haven’t read the first chapter, go grab a cup of Joe and pick up Pete, chapter 1. I’m using the New Living Translation,…

Struggling with Peter

Peter was a fisherman. He was supposed to have been "uneducated and untrained." Yet, I found myself struggling with his words as I read through 1 Peter 1. Bemused, I remembered how he said: Bear in mind that our Lord’s…