Category: Theological Musings

Yes, The Cross Is An Exceedingly Strange Religious Symbol

Yes, the cross is an exceedingly strange religious symbol.
Embarrassing, even. An instrument of humiliation and torture, after all. Continue reading

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On Mortal Ills Prevailing

On the exquisite, brilliant, Good News, which is sweeter and stronger and more prevailing. Continue reading

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On Not Losing Heart

When we constantly read a passage in the same translation, it becomes very easy to skip over the familiar old words and not pay much attention to what they’re really saying. But when we read them in a new way, a new translation, a new language, they become new and vivid. Continue reading

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God Has Something Better…And It Might Feel A Whole Lot Worse

Consider it pure joy, my brothers and sisters, whenever you face trials of many kinds, because you know that the testing of your faith produces perseverance. Let perseverance finish its work so that you may be mature and complete, not lacking anything. Continue reading

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On Advent: A Quiet Hope

Advent is a state of waiting. It’s a short amount of time that symbolizes the whole history of the Jews waiting for their Messiah, the whole longing of creation for a Redeemer. Continue reading

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On Mathematics and Worship

Anything that is done for the glory of God is worship, and anything that causes a conscious awareness of the magnificence and gloriousness and beauty of God is a thing that leads us to worship. Continue reading

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I Am Not Enough

I have been trying to decide why I don’t like the recent movement that’s been going around Facebook and the virtual world called “I Am Enough.” It has a very exemplary goal, one that is similar to what I very … Continue reading

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Where You Need To Be

Can it be true that God has ordained this fundraising struggle for me? Continue reading

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