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We live between the poles of birth and death. One filled with possibility and one with regret. For the materialist, this presents a bit of a quandary. Believing that a purposeless universe gave birth to purposeless creatures they find themselves unable to explain why they spend eighty years obsessing over purpose. Believing that life is a crapshoot…..
The vast majority of humans believe in a god or spirit of some kind or other so the problem today isn’t god’s existence but rather his/her/its identity. Sadly, we have become spiritually lazy and instead of doing the hard work of discovering who this god is we create one to our own liking. We take our divine preferences to the marketplace…..
The once proud mainline denominations that nourished the faith of our youth are exiting the cultural stage like extras in someone else’s worldview drama. Sensing declining attendance they have tried to regain their standing by trying to become more culturally relevant, but in the process have become spiritually irrelevant. Instead of marketing their salvation specialty, they began offering 31 flavors…..
Our postmodern culture has adopted the poorly informed, yet profoundly tolerant stance that, “All paths lead to God!” We are all just spiritual mountain climbers taking different approaches to the same divine peak. While it is true that all religious paths do end on a summit, the problem is that each summit is located on a completely different mountain…..
Atheists are haunted by the clanging chains of the spiritual ghost wandering their fine-tuned physical factories. They cannot escape the fact that humans are composite physical and spiritual beings. We are in the awkward position of having one foot in the spiritual world and one foot in the physical world. We are puzzled by the fact that we can…..
A great deal of human spiritual searching is inspired by the fact that God and man are always bumping into one another. I think it is fair to say that we have all had our souls briefly stirred by a brush with holiness. We are, however, not content with spiritual one-night stands and so we try to pursue a long-term relationship with Mr. RIGHT. Intrigued by the mysterious encounters with the “lover of our soul” we get up enough courage…..
Frequently, the discovery of our spiritual nature is so exciting that we neglect the importance of filling the God void properly. We fail to recognize that the spiritual hole in our lives is a Judeo-Christian God shaped hole that can only be adequately filled by Him. Most people, however, spend most of their lives trying to pound square shaped gods into the circular God shaped hole at the center of their soul. Frustrated by their inability to fit in the God…..
“I’m a spiritual person.” How often have you heard family, friends, and co-workers make that statement? The vast majority of people recognize that failing to acknowledge a spiritual side to life is almost a human heresy. We humans have this crazy idea that life without a spiritual component is somehow incomplete. Most people claim that they are spiritual, but when pushed…..
