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God opens up the door to His study and steps out onto the balcony overlooking His Garden. He hears the chirping of birds, the rustling of squirrels, and the babbling of brooks, but something is missing. Despite perfect ecological acoustics and natural symphonic majesty He senses a lyrical emptiness. The spirituals once sung by His Garden tenders are but a faint…..
Friedrich Nietzsche, in The Parable of the Madman, declared that God was dead. While ultimately thinking that God’s demise was a good thing, Nietzsche understood that the throne could not be left vacant and mankind would have to step up and assume all of God’s divine responsibilities. This raises a very important question; whom would you elect to that Divine…..
Our culture has drifted from the time-honored concept of accepting the consequences of ones actions to the sketchy recent notion that we need to blame others. The fruity idea that we are gods has fermented to the point that we are intoxicated with our own faux divinity and believe we can do no wrong, and instead of taking…..
Mankind knows it is flawed but inappropriately uses that knowledge to justify finger wagging and not mirror gazing. Humans recognizes sinfulness in a neighbor with a noisy rooster, but fails to see it when they lie to a spouse or steal pencils from work. We are quite eager to sit in the judgment seat and prosecute the crimes…..
Our culture finds the word “sin” mean-spirited. It is viewed as a politically incorrect term used by Christians to condemn those who choose to live differently. In order to rectify the situation, our culture, in true postmodern fashion, deconstructs language by changing the usage of previously well-established words creating a cloud of confusion that looks like a fluffy lamb…..
The Old Testament prophets were an interesting bunch. God recruited them often kicking and screaming to speak His hard words to an ungrateful people. He didn’t wait until they had completed prophet school, or taken a class in rhetoric. He didn’t offer a masters program in God speak, or an in-service on workplace violence. Yet God used…..
We hear a lot of people talking as if the world were all gray, no discernible differences between right and wrong, normal and abnormal, or even animal and man. Gray represents a mixture of black and white, so when you say the world is gray you are just acknowledging the fact that it is frequently difficult to discern between…..
For musicians, the heavenly story ends pretty nicely. The band never breaks up, the gig is eternal, and there’s no fighting over who is the leader of the group. The alternative hell story, on the other hand, is quite different. You end up going solo and due to a lack of popularity end up driving a dilapidated van from show…..
The Genesis account describes two specific trees, the Tree of Life, and the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil. God did not forbid the Tree of Life; apparently, its fruit would allow one to live forever. The Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil, however, represented the relationship boundaries between the Creator and the created. Adam…..
The idea of redemption has its origin in the image of God because you cannot regain or restore that which you never had. Everyone has been created in God’s image, so everyone has a horse in this race. We all hope to enter the winner’s circle, but sadly hear gunshots in the distance announcing the fate of a fellow traveller whose broken worldview leg can no longer bear the weight of truth.
We have soiled the image in which we…..
