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Mankind’s illusory sophistication has sadly resulted in his uncanny ability to separate ideas from reality. He frequently quotes authors, promotes their philosophies, and then surprisingly neglects the fact that those very ideas failed in the laboratory of life. How is it possible that Nietzsche can be elevated to the status of postmodern philosophical hero when this superman was woefully unable…..
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…..
In the past, artists lived comfortably in a world which they knew was created and sustained by a benevolent, creative, and almighty God. They saw evidence of His divine imagination everywhere and couldn’t help but try and capture it in paint, song, and in the written word. Sadly the “acidity of modernism” burned off the spiritual realm and left nothing to replace it but charred neuro-chemicals. Maybe the artistic angst we see so frequently played out on our cultural stage…..
As we begin to seek the God who is, we need to understand one of the most common misconceptions underlying this important task; the idea that all spiritual paths lead to God. The concept of many paths to the same God raises three very serious issues. First of all, it implies that the object of our spiritual search is ill defined, nebulous, and…..
It appears that God’s existence is on trial. We constantly hear arguments from both sides of the aisle but forget that the jury has already packed its bags and left for home. Americans have decided by an overwhelming majority that God does in fact exist. Polls consistently show that 85-95% of Americans believe in a God, therefore the real question in front of us is not, “does God exist?” But rather, “who is this God in whom we believe?” We…..
I loved Jesus but my Christian marketing scheme had become a series of Tupperware parties where I would invite over a couple of like-minded friends to discuss the Gospel and then conveniently pack it into an attractive plastic container hoping that it would remain fresh until the next time we met. What I failed to realize was that I was effectively sealing up the life giving breath of the Holy Spirit and preventing it from resuscitating a world desperately gasping…..
My existence felt like divided post World War two Berlin separated by an enormous barbed wire lined Wall. One side characterized by the drab gray life of work and cultural navigation and the other side filled with spiritual hope and promise. When life got hard I would sneak across the wall under the cover of night only to return undetected before the Son rose. I dared not climb over the wall during daylight for fear of being gunned down by the…..
I wrote this book because I was tired of the daily commute between my sacred and secular lives. Everyday I was forced to sell a bit more of my soul at the tollbooth of hypocrisy. I discovered that my pockets were quickly running out of change and all I had left was the lint of despair. My secular life was crumbling and I didn’t have the spiritual currency to cross the bridge and seek refuge in the sacred city. It…..
