January 2013
1 post
This is Amazing Love...
I am supposed to be asleep. I haven’t slept well in days, weeks really. If I lay it out, completely and honestly, I have not gotten more than 2 hours of consecutive sleep in a night in months. My Sunday afternoon naps are more productive than my nights. My nights consist of crawling into bed and my mind wandering into places of deep thought, sometimes deep worry. When my mind shuts off, as...
July 2012
4 posts
A Post-Christian Europe
There are many claims today that Europe, and ultimately the entire world is facing the end of Modern Christianity. Churches are empty and closing their doors, and those who were “raised Christian” are seeking different things to feed their spiritual and religious needs. The words Post-Christian allude to the end of Christianity in specified areas. Just as one would say “Post-Apocalyptic”...
Breakdown
Why I am stepping away from live music…
For over 15 years I have been playing music. When I first learned to play guitar it was only because I wanted to worship. Shortly after I learned guitar I was approached to play bass in a band, and quickly picked up that as well. As time went on I continued to play in various bands outside of the church, and took to writing my own songs as well. In...
A defectu nervi...
A defectu nervi - A failure of nerve.
Your Love Never Fails Me.
One of my favorite Theologians and philosophers, Søren Kierkegaard seemed to differ greatly from the majority of the Christian world on one thing. Community. It is a topic I have written about before on many occasions. In part because I don’t quite understand community. How volatile a group of people who supposedly love each...
Anonymous asked: De que se trata esta página concretamente, como dice en grande Nada es verdad, todo está permitido, pero eso quiere decir que no hay ninguna creencia porque todo ha caído, porque pones diálogos de la biblia?
June 2012
1 post
Fides
Just when you have none left. Faith that is. Faith is a difficult thing to grasp. It is defined as this:
Complete trust of confidence in something or someone.
Faith is putting our trust in something that we cannot see. While we get tangible results, many times we still can’t see what we want to believe in. Sarah couldn’t see how she would be blessed with a child in Genesis 16 and...
April 2012
1 post
Studium Sanctum
What have I?
Literally nothing. I have nothing to bring. Like the shepherds at Jesus’ birth. I come with nothing, to stand in awe of the Holy one.
I don’t have anything, but yet He gave me his everything.
Jesus lived his life knowing that it was forfeit. Knowing this, he still lived, he still loved and he still gave. “And he said, ‘The Son of Man must suffer many things...
March 2012
1 post
Idus Martii
So, I am pretty sure that this morning’s storm was Jupiter’s response to the Roman celebration of the Ides of March.
Seriously. When I walked out to my car this morning the streets were bone dry, but lightning was streaking across the sky with fury.
March 15 is, in Roman tradition, dedicated to Mars, the God of war, who the Romans celebrated far higher than Jupiter, the king of the...
February 2012
3 posts
Interpretandi Scripturam
Can biblical scripture, after years of being edited and reworded, after hundreds of different versions and languages of the bible, be accurate? While Martin Luther shared the view that every Christian has the ability to interpret scripture, it is my belief that everyone, regardless of their religious beliefs, can interpret scripture. The issue of interpretation does not lie in who is...
Effectus Peccati
As children most of us are taught the difference between right and wrong, good an evil. We are taught that lying is bad, that we shouldn’t hurt others, that we shouldn’t take from others what is theirs. Yet as we grow older, the sin nature inside us begins to take over. We begin to justify the small things, and then the bigger things, until some could even rationalize their way out of murder if...
Plene Divinum, Plene Humanes
When one is raised within the Christian church, we are taught at an early age the most fundamental beliefs. First, we are taught about God, that He created the earth and everything in it. We learn that God created a man and a woman, named Adam and Eve, and that they sinned against God by breaking his one command to them. Through the sin of Adam and Eve and the sins of their sons and daughters, we...
January 2012
3 posts
Vita in communi
Life together. Life in community. We all need it, but we can be quick to reject it.
If I had a transcript of Jonathan Rue’s teaching at Vineyard Church of Columbus this past weekend, I would post it here.
At some point this week it will be available here. Till then, you’ll have to take my word for it. Jonathan talks about something fairly deep and profound. Anguish and hurt. Hurt...
Politice Religiosa
The history of the Catholic Church and the Papacy have long been fascinating. Both have have changed views on religion, the church, science and politics. At times, together the Pope and the Catholic Church have worked to “look after the orphans and widows” and to change the world for the better. Yet, at times the church and its leader have been embroiled in worldwide controversy. It is through...
