My spiritual autobiography

The following is a brief autobiography, as submitted as my first paper for a class I am taking at Asbury Theological Seminary: “Where there is no prophetic vision the people cast off restraint [or ‘the people are discouraged’], but blessed is he who keeps the law.” So states Proverbs 29:18 in the English Standard Version, […]

God is good?

Sometimes I think I’m insane for being a Christian. Time and again I fall for the devil’s oldest temptation: God is holding out on you. I believe it; I grab control of my life back from God; I do something that I think will make me happy; then I watch as my life implodes in […]

Where is hope?

When your life has come to an end, what do you want your legacy to be? I’ve been asking myself this a lot lately. My opening course in seminary focuses on understanding what it means to be “called” to vocations or situations in life, and the emphasis is on understanding the deepest desires of our […]

Perception, revisited

Tomorrow will mark the first birthday for this blog. I think this an opportune time to take a break from the series of posts discussing differences among Christianities and take another look at the foundational issue of this blog: perception. Psychologically speaking, what we perceive to be real is, for our psyches, legitimately real. It’s […]

The invisible, determinism, nihilism and Satan

Let’s break down the Nicene Creed and appropriate Scripture to the basics of what the Christian historically believes about the nature of reality. “I believe in one God, the Father Almighty, Maker of heaven and earth, and of all things visible and invisible…” Well. Talk about bang for your buck; that’s a lot of information per […]

Variety of Christianities – Do differences matter?

Within the broad spectrum of religious belief that is the Christian community, there is a movement to brush aside theological differences over “minor details” and focus on our similarities. For the most part, I fully support this endeavour. I am an advocate of ecumenism, which is the pursuit of reuniting the many varieties of Christianity once more […]

Sanctification – the praxis

Danger, danger, danger: my previous post and this follow-up may easily be misunderstood by those who are not far along the Christian walk, as it can easily be interpreted as legalism, which it is not – there is a balance. Let me emphasize this: be at peace. Romans 8 affirms us that there is no […]