Tag Archive | Holy Spirit
Being Holy
I was scrolling Facebook on my phone the other day (which explains why I missed the context of the comment that caught my eye), and I ran across a statement that made me cringe. When I went back to read it in context, I have to say that the person who made the comment, in […]
Being Free
We live in a country where we talk a lot about freedom, often equating the concept with our rights. Having been fairly engaged in political discourse for more than a decade now and growing up in the Navy where I understood that most of the adults I knew were serving the nation to protect our […]
God Talk: The Adventure – The Year So Far Part 2
Today I am reminded as I come back once again to this task, this ministry, of the conversation I had last night at the new Bible study, for lack of a more accurate term (it’s a good bit more than simply a Bible study), that I started attending the night before I last wrote here. […]
The jk Phenom
I ran across a thing on Facebook the other day which reminded me of something I’d been meaning to write about a while back. I’m sure you’ve seen one of these things rolling through you feed, being passed around by your friends. Perhaps you’ve even passed it along yourself, clicking copy and past without really […]
The Gospel of the Unchurched
It’s the beginning of the New Year, and among most churches that means some reflection about the intentions for the year ahead. Among Methodists, and I imagine other denominations that view themselves as having an evangelical nature, that means certain terms start flying around more than normal, reminding me once again how irritating buzz words […]
God Talk: The Adventure – Why?
As this new year has begun, God has called me to start getting some things organized, and one of those things is my writing ministry. As I’ve been drawing together my Facebook notes into files by category, before moving on to drawing together my work here on the blog, I’ve noticed that my work has […]
Miracles
A new year brings new commitments, and I figured what better way to start this new round of committing to some consistency in writing than with a discussion of miracles. Judging from past experience, it will indeed take God’s direct intervention if I am to overcome my natural inclination to get distracted. More than that […]
Hearing God
It’s been a busy few weeks, with interesting new opportunities God laid briefly before me. Having a daily commute, thankfully short, gave me time to think, but not so much time to do much with those thoughts. Now that things have settled back into a new rhythm, some of those thoughts have come back to […]
God Talk: The Adventure – Sunday… I lost count
I started to write this as a quick Facebook status, and realized I shouldn’t. I was gonna put it there because I knew I was behind on writing here. Several weeks back, I ran into a situation I wasn’t sure how to write about. I managed to write about an apostate church without hesitation, but […]
God Talk: The Adventure – Sunday Four
So, last weekend, the anniversary of 9/11 was the fourth church we visited. We seem to be sort of alternating back and forth in church size, so that was pretty much the criteria I went with for last week for picking where to go. We chose one of the larger congregations here in town. And […]
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