Recapitulation

This is a word that I rarely, if ever, understood. You’d hear it in old, musty churches with big white steeples. You would hear it tossed around in bible college along with other big words like sanctification, justification, propitiation, pontification… k, maybe not the last one. But it is one of those words that if [...]

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little “t” truth

First off, I’d like to give the disclaimer about the book I’m currently reading – the Fingerprints of God.  It gives a lot of insightful ideas, but I have found that he propels some ideas that I do not quite agree with.  So if you ever go to check it out, just remember what my [...]

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Fingerprints of God – Pt 1

I’m reading a book that is new to me called The Fingerprints of God by Robert Farrar Capon. I’m 10 pages in and I am fairly sure it will be a book to stretch me and my views of God.
Capon sets out in this book to counteract general assumptions about God’s work throughout [...]

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“Limited Connectivity”

Rob Bell in Sex God talks about Sexuality as both our awareness that we’re profoundly severed/disconnected and also all the ways we go about trying to reconnect.
Wow, I resonate with this. He uses those words like “ache” and “longing” and that’s definitely how I feel sometimes. That I am outside of [...]

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Stuff I’m learning right now

K, so I feel like I haven’t written in a little while, and I was going to just have a couple small sentences on what I’ve been learning right now… but it turned into another novel.  So, if you don’t have time to read my autobiography, check out the first sentence of each and see [...]

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The Fear of Failure

What is the bigger failure? To risk failing repeatedly to find the few successes along the way or to never risk failing at all?
These are thoughts that go through my mind about once every few months or so. Risk and failure are big topics for me. One of the soul-rattling questions of my [...]

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The Story of my Life

So I think I figured out why I really like the books like Esther and Ecclesiastes. It’s because I reflect it so often on to my own life. God is rarely mentioned in the narrative but somehow, when I read the story, the whole thing feels saturated with Him. I guess that’s the way I [...]

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