Titles have always bugged me, not just in the church. They serve only one purpose: to make people think you are ‘all that and a bag of chips’ – to ‘blow wind up one’s own kilt’, if you will. Their purpose is to simply show credibility when credibility is needed, but when I shake your hand for the first time,…
Category: Faith
How to Gauge your Christian Life
It’s a fact that there are just a few lines to carve into your gravestone or fit into your obituary in the back of your local newspaper. So what would it say about you? What would you hope it would say about you? As a Christian (I prefer the term ‘disciple’ and ‘believer’ so we’ll be switching effective now, by…
What Happened to the Salty Pillar Witness in Genesis 19?
If Lot’s wife was turned into a pillar of salt for looking back, what happened to the witness who saw it? When I read my Bible sometimes stuff really comes alive and I’m right there in the situation. In this particular case, in Genesis 19, I was running away from Sodom and Gomorrah just before fireballs from heaven rained down…
Nearly Destroyed
Have you ever felt like you are just on the edge of destruction? Where all the forces of the world are set to destroy you and no matter how many tears you cry you find yourself backed against a wall awaiting the final swing of the enemies sword to end it all? This might be financial, spiritual, physical, psychological, social,…
Does God Simply Bless Those Who Believe With Financial Blessings?
If we are faithful to ‘live a Christian life’, does God, in return, pour out His heavenly blessings on us? The answer is “it depends”. Depends on what, you ask? I’m glad you asked. It depends on two things: God’s will and our hearts and the two are directly connected. Today I was in my daily Bible Power Hour (I…
Introducing Mr. Soulcase
Theologically speaking, Mr. Soulcase should probably be named ‘Mr. Spiritcase” but it just doesn’t have the same ring. The Bible says in Corinthians 2 verse 11: For who among men knows the things of a man except the man’s spirit within him? So too, no one knows the things of God except the Spirit of God. People without faith in…
Stella Young – Inspiration Porn
I have got to say… Watching this presentation by Stella Young completely revolutionized the way I view disabled people. In a humourous way, Ms. Young presents a non-humourous subject matter – the way non-disabled people view disabled people. My spew will follow underneath the embedded TED Talk below: This speech really challenged me and my position and relationship with…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 6 in a Series: Dealing With Pressure to Buy Gifts
If you haven’t been following the series, it started a while back now and the goal here is to shoot some ‘sacred cows’ and see if the foundation we are building on is solid, or one of ‘shaky foundations’. Here are some quick links to the series: Part 1: Roots Part 2: Tree vs Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4:…
Goodbye 2014! Hello 2015!
Well, as the Lord God explicitly laid out for me, 2013 was a ‘year of pain’, 2014 would be a ‘year of recovery’ and 2015 is expected to be a ‘year of gain’. The first two have played out exactly perfectly to a tee. 2015 is a mysterious mystery which lies before me and I’m like a man about to…
Overcoming the ‘spirit of christmas’ with the Spirit of Christ: Part 5 in a Series: Practical Alternatives to Christmas traditions
If you haven’t been following this series, here is a quick link list to the previous articles so you can catch up: Part 1: The roots Part 2: Christmas tree versus Vine Part 3: Santa Part 4: To Pull your kid from school or not And that brings us to Part 5. We’ve established that there are good grounds to…