I’m Frustrated!

I have to admit, I’m frus­trated. And this is where I’m going to express my frus­tra­tion, to my great dis­may… and frustration. I’m frus­trated because I’m in an envi­ron­ment I wouldn’t have cho­sen to be in, out­side of my wife and I being called to where we are (in this case, Que­bec). I’m frus­trated because the peo­ple can be dif­fi­cult, the gov­ern­ment is non­sen­si­cal (they are in the process of try­ing... Read More

Hail Mary, Full of Grace.. Was The Lord With Thee?

Let’s get straight to the point. If the vir­gin birth did not hap­pen, then, as Mark Driscoll rightly observes: If the vir­gin birth of Jesus is untrue, then the story of Jesus changes greatly; we would have a sex­u­ally promis­cu­ous young woman lying about God’s mirac­u­lous hand in the birth of her son, rais­ing that son to declare he was God, and then join­ing his reli­gion. But if Mary is noth­ing more than a sin­ful con artist... Read More

Unable to Prepare for the Journey?

TRUTH It’s an Adven­ture, Not an Axiom. A Story Unfold­ing, Not a Tale Already Told. The Jour­ney Counts, Not the Destination. Right? I came across this col­lec­tion of (emer­gent) catch­phrases dur­ing a forum dis­cus­sion which hap­pened this past week­end. There is a visual which goes along with it, which you can find here. The visual itself is, I think, self-evidently bril­liant (I highly rec­om­mend you look at the visual).... Read More

The Search for Answers and Meaning

Recently I’ve come to view cul­ture and soci­ety as a search for answers and mean­ing. It seems to me that this is some­thing I should have hap­pened upon a long time ago, how­ever, that’s of no con­se­quence now. What this means, though, is that how I approach post­moder­nity within Chris­tian­ity has changed some what, in the sense that, I think, I have a bet­ter under­stand­ing of what exactly is going on. I’ve tried to cre­ate... Read More

Evangelistic Discipleship

I’ve heard the com­plaint many times that the church does not engage in dis­ci­ple­ship, or at least does not dis­ci­ple as it should. Hope­fully (well, usu­ally) the dis­cus­sions turn to what I think is most impor­tant ini­tial ques­tion: what do we mean by dis­ci­ple­ship? As I said in my pre­vi­ous post, it has been sug­gested that by dis­ci­ple­ship we should include evan­ge­lis­tic and wit­ness­ing out­reaches.... Read More

Discipleship: What do we Mean?

I’ve heard many Chris­tians raise con­cern or oth­er­wise com­plain about the (lack of) dis­ci­ple­ship in the church. What I often find con­fus­ing is the dif­fer­ent mean­ings of the word ‘dis­ci­ple­ship’ that peo­ple use. One exam­ple I heard recently is from a pas­tor who has defined dis­ci­ple­ship so as to include wit­ness­ing and evan­ge­lis­tic out­reaches towards those who have not accepted Jesus. This def­i­n­i­tion... Read More

Answers, not quite, increasingly superficial

A cou­ple of days ago Brian McLaren was asked the fol­low­ing ques­tion on his blog, “… third, that you believe (based on some of your lat­est com­ments) that the god wor­shipped by Mus­lims is the same God that Chris­tians wor­ship. Are these assump­tions true?” In typ­i­cal fash­ion, McLaren has pro­vided non-answers in the form of fur­ther ques­tions. Those ques­tions and the point they are try­ing to get across, how­ever,... Read More

Was Jesus who he said he was?

In between school and work (started a new job) I’ve been lis­ten­ing to a lot of Mark Driscoll and his ser­mon on the claims of Jesus is some­thing I would like to share. Watch and enjoy! At least I enjoy, because we’re sim­i­lar in personality.  Read More

Did Jesus Exist?

I came across an arti­cle writ­ten by a man named Mark Thomas on the exis­tence of Jesus, you can find it here. This is some­thing of a reply to a few of his claims as I under­stood them. The arti­cle claims the fol­low­ing contentions: 1. Jesus had no earthly existence i. No reli­able extra-Biblical references ii. The Gospels are unre­li­able his­tor­i­cal accounts iii. Jesus’ bio­graph­i­cal details were not known by Paul ... Read More

But you can prove a negative!

There is no way to dis­prove God. There is also no way to dis­prove uni­corns, lep­rechauns, the Loch ness mon­ster or Odin. The inabil­ity to dis­prove does not prove existence. I hear a lot of peo­ple say this and it sur­prises me, to be very hon­est. This sort of argu­ment is an enthymeme, that enthymeme being “we can’t prove a neg­a­tive”; we can’t prove that God does not exist, or that lep­rechauns, the Lock-ness mon­ster... Read More

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