The fear of the LORD is the beginning of wisdom –Psalm 111:10 Last night at Valley Mosaic we enjoyed a great discussion about fear. The discussion centered on the above quoted verse from Psalm 111. The conversation ranged from defining what fear means to each of us, to speculating on what the Bible means when…
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The two things you can’t talk about at dinner.
I have often wondered why it is that people get so heated when discussing certain issues—you know, the ones you can’t talk about at the dinner table. The ones we can’t really control but yet we all like to pretend that we can. The ones that make daughters hate their Dad’s and cause brothers to…
Sacred Mistakes
“Mistakes are almost always of a sacred nature. Never try to correct them. On the contrary: rationalize them, understand them thoroughly. After that, it will be possible for you to sublimate them.” –Salvador Dali Painting: Salvador Dali, The Average Bureaucrat, 1930
Dictator of A Small Island
“It is every artist’s fantasy to run things. I know personally, I’d be happiest as dictator of a small island. The problem is that romantic artists are usually too disorganized to run their own lives, let alone societies. And most societies are too sensible to let them try it.” –Brad Holland Illustration by Brad Holland
Your Best Is Still Your Worst
Here is a cover of the song St. Augustine that my wife and I did this evening. The recording is kinda rough, hence the title of this post, but it was fun nonetheless. The song was written by Band of Horses and is one of my favorite tunes off their first recording. Enjoy! St. Augustine…
Inner Freedom
When you are interiorly free you call others to freedom whether you know it or not…A free man or a free woman creates a space where others feel safe and want to dwell. Our world is so full of conditions, demands, requirements, and obligations that we often wonder what is expected of us. But when…
Exploring the Infinite
“Therefore the theology of negation is so necessary to the theology of affirmation that without it God would not be worshiped as the infinite God but as creature; and such worship is idolatry, for it gives to an image that which only belongs to truth itself.” –Nicholas of Cusa The only proper name for God,…
Biblical Literalism a Modern Invention?
Origen (c.185–254) was an early Christian writer, scholar and theologian. He is probably most well known for his desire to fuse Greek Philosophy with Christianity and for his eccentric doctrine of “the fabulous preexistence of souls” and also for his allegoric view of the Bible. Despite some of his more radical views, he was never…
The Bible: Inspiration and Divine Invitation
“Why pluck one string when you can strum the guitar!” –Aaron Weis of mewithoutYou “All scripture is given by inspiration of God, and is profitable for doctrine, for reproof, for correction, for instruction in righteousness.” (KJV) -2 Timothy 3:16 My friend Matthew Barlow and I recently had a conversation about Divine Inspiration and how people…
Truth-Flow
“In its improper reciprocity, Jesus initiates a radically mobile sense of truth. It moves like living water. The way [of Jesus] is a truth-flow. It bursts out of the territorialism of religion, of worship fixed here or there, mountain or Jerusalem, my group or yours, my church or your temple, mosque or yoga mat. “God…