As mentioned last time, I write as an amateur on the topic of prayer. These posts are simply “what I know now” (or think I know), nothing more. I like to think of my walk with God as being punctuated by a series of doorways into rooms of ministry. I’m at the gas station …
A Prayer Life Part 1: Following God Around Town
These are my gut-honest reflections on prayer. I write from the perspective of an amateur. But perhaps that’s exactly what may help you. In prayer I appear to be doing a lot of catching up. That is, catching up to what God is doing. His work seems to take place right in front of me, hidden in plain sight. I walk onto …
Love Your Atheist Neighbor Part 10: A Thought about hell
One of the objections I hear in my interactions with atheists on college campuses is that Christians give them no viable alternatives. Either you believe in Jesus or you’re sent to hell. Not much of a choice there. I respond by saying that all persons are invited to join the family of God. If they refuse the invitation, they live outside …
Love Your Atheist Neighbor Part 9: Secular Common Sense 2
What I call “secular common sense” is the view held by many atheists that says God and creation and miracles and worship and heaven and hell (and the like) are all just dumb. Empty concepts. (See my prior post for a fuller explanation.) Secular common sense agrees with the Mark Twain character who said: Faith is believing something you …