The radical love and inclusiveness Jesus Christ preached is the same radical love…
I have taken on a new spiritual discipline: I am trying not to complain about the…
When I was in my 20s, people always used to say that when you’re in your 30s, you find yourself. You know who you are, and so you don’t care about what others think. I was always a person who cared what other people thought about me AND tried to avoid conflict, so in the…
But he said to me, “My grace is sufficient for you, for my power is made perfect in weakness.” Therefore I will boast all the more gladly…
Jesus answered them, Is it not written in your law, I said, Ye are gods? If he called them gods, unto whom the…
A year ago spring, the interim pastor of a church here in New Haven, CT invited me to come to a congregational meeting to give a presentation on the nature of the United Church of Christ (UCC).
“But evil people and charlatans will go from bad to worse, deceiving others and being…
If you were born in one family, you would have been Catholic, with its many practices and…
Fictional stories reflect reality. A fantasy about elves and dragons can still be believable so long as its characters are believable. If its characters appear honest, authentic, and imperfect, we are more inclined to believe in them.
Today God put me to the test
It cannot be denied that as Christians the things we believe and teach are rough and undesirable to the world…
In 1925, a cross was erected in Bladensburg, Maryland, to commemorate the lives of forty-nine local men who lost their lives fighting in World War I. Though maintained on public land with public dollars, the Supreme Court ruled this week that…
I was reading the one passage in the scripture and I was like wow, did This just happen?
Not everyone’s a Jesus. Hell, not everyone’s a Peter, Thomas, Thaddeus or even a James! Sometimes, you’re a Judas. And if…
There is a physical barrier that theater has to push — towards the perfection of religious truth…
In the water, I find peace in flowing
No directions, no intentions just being
It must have been quite a sight to behold.
Fifty claps on this one. I call those Moment of Stillness my Pockets of Perfect Peace.
Thank you a thousand times! I will never again look at the canal outside our house, the reflections and ripples, without thinking of this piece.
Beautiful. A perfect sermon in itself.
Yes, Tom -you are right. God’s tell us from his Word, in Romans 8:28:
“And we know that in all things God works for the good of those who love him, who have been called according to his purpose.”
So we can conclude from this that God’s purpose in freezing your water that way was to find out if you…
They know they’re not good and pure (’perfect’), then — more often than not — they project this shadow of imperfection onto the outside world of people who do not believe and/or believe in something else (in/out). In order to maintain a sense of superiority towards outsiders (non-christians).Being of the Christian faith, I have experienced it myself. I find the author’s assessment quite on point.
Mary Hood, thanks for sharing this invaluable life lesson in a personal way as it relates to you and what you are learning as you live your life. I particularly liked how you shone further light on John 3:16. Jesus died in our place, not for a cause. That verse is so familiar to us we can lose sight of the significance of that fact.
- Ephesians 4:2 (NIV)
While the Bible does not condone LGBT practices or its lifestyle, and in fact, calls…
Children who had a religious upbringing have a higher degree of well-being in early adulthood and are likely to be healthier, according to a recent study conducted by the Harvard T.H. Chan School of Public…
