Archive for March, 2007
Faith or Wishful Thinking
What is the difference between faith and wishful thinking? Someone said to me regarding a specific desired outcome to a problem, “let’s trust God that this will happen.”
Now that would have been good and pious if he’d meant, “I don’t know what will happen, but I believe that God is good and He will [...]
Coffee and Computers
I’ve learned that computers do not like to drink coffee. I discovered this interesting fact after spilling coffee all over my laptop yesterday morning. It is now … how do you say… on the fritz.
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I Ate a Rattlesnake
After a busy morning filling in for our pastor, I flew out west for a week-long recruitment trip. Arrived in Phoenix Sunday evening. Went to the restaurant attached to the hotel and lo and behold, what did I see? They have rattlesnake on the menu. And let me tell you that [...]
Wrestling w/God
I am always intrigued by the story from Genesis 32 of Jacob wrestling with the angel. Of course, this passage and Hosea 12 identify the mysterious stranger as the Lord God himself.
What does it mean to wrestle with God? Jacob was always wrestling with someone. Even in his mother’s womb, he wrestled [...]
School House Rock and Worldview
We went last night to our 11-year-old son’s school musical. It was based on all those awesome Schoolhouse Rock ditties from the 70s. I used to enjoy those on Saturday mornings. Still remember so many of the lyrics from Conjunction Junction, I’m Only a Bill, Interplanet Janet, etc. It was great [...]
Jim Carrey on Religion
Actor and comedian Jim Carrey riffs on religion etc. here.
Notice the dry, withered, old canard, “I’m not religious, but spiritual.”
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