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FAQ: On Grace

Update: As I said, the word “grace” causes a lot of Christians to get their undies bunched up. So before you start to tell me just how wrong I am to say that we are saved—and continue in our salvation-–by grace through faith alone, I urge you to scroll over to the righthand side ofContinue reading “FAQ: On Grace”

Saturday Ramblings 3.26.11

Greetings from the desert edition of Saturday Ramblings. Your rambler is in the Phoenix area taking in some Spring Training baseball and In N Out burgers. Yes, life can get better than this, but not without involving legal action. I brought my allergies with me to the desert and was hoping to leave them here,Continue reading “Saturday Ramblings 3.26.11”

Does Jesus Really Mean It?

Confession time: I pray a lot, but I don’t often believe that God will hear and answer my prayers. And for me, that creates quite a bit of tension. On the one hand, I believe that I should pray and pray frequently. We are told to pray unceasingly. We are to pray for those inContinue reading “Does Jesus Really Mean It?”

Quotes

“The Bible tells us to love our neighbors, and also to love our enemies; probably because generally they are the same people.” Â (G.K. Chesterton) “Everywhere I go, I’m asked if I think the universities stifle writers. My opinion is that they don’t stifle enough of them. There’s many a bestseller that could have been preventedContinue reading “Quotes”

Saturday Ramblings 3.19.11

Today will be a bit of a different sort of Saturday Ramblings. For one, once I eliminated all of the Rob Bell Is A Universalist stories, there really wasn’t much to report on. But we have some bigger things to discuss this week. Are you ready to ramble? I want to ask you to spendContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 3.19.11”

The Four Holy Gospels

There are Bibles that you carry to church with you. For me, that’s a Pitt Minion Cambridge NASB. Then there are Bibles for studying. I have shelves full, ranging from the NET to a Dake to, oh, everything. And then there is the Bible as a work of art. As far as I know, thereContinue reading “The Four Holy Gospels”

Saturday Ramblings 3.12.11

Take me out to the ballgame. That is, if the ballgame is in the Phoenix area over the weekend of March 25. Your rambler will be in the Phoenix area that weekend for a little Spring Training action. And an In N Out or two. Should you be so inclined to get together for lunchContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 3.12.11”

The Bigness Of God

Silence, it seems, is big business these days. My friend Mike leads silent retreats several times a year. He started with four guys, and now gets close to 80 wanting to go and experience something that is getting harder and harder to find in our day: Silence. I went away for a similar retreat lastContinue reading “The Bigness Of God”

Saturday Ramblings 3.5.11

Pondering the imponderables today. Such as, why do we drive on parkways, but park on driveways? What’s with the “interstate” highways in Hawaii? If a cow laughs really hard, will milk come out of her nose? And, most imponderable of all, why are the letters “s” and “l” rubbing off of my laptop’s keyboard, butContinue reading “Saturday Ramblings 3.5.11”

Difficult Scriptures

And He was saying to them all, “If anyone wishes to come after Me, he must deny himself, and take up his cross daily and follow Me” (Luke 9:23, NASB). Perhaps the most difficult thing about this verse is not interpreting it correctly, but living it out. Just how does one deny himself as JesusContinue reading “Difficult Scriptures”