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Correspondence to God: Examples from Johnny Cash and Eberhard Jungel

By Lauren at The Mockingbird Blog I've spent a lot of time lately thinking about ontology and ethics as a topic for the thesis requirement of my master's degree. An essay by Eberhard Jungel, "Humanity in Corresponden…
Kingdom Growth: Four Keys to Spiritual Progress

By Roderick Evans Every child that enters into the world is expected to grow. When a child does not grow, it is a sign of a developmental problem. Many Christians are suffering from spiritual developmental problems be…
Prayer Destroys Enemies

My friend ShamelesslyRed posted this video today. (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=r9uVBeNCbc4&feature=player_embedded) Whenever Christian nonviolence is talked about and people bring up the question of "What do you…
The Poet's Fear

God may reduce you on Judgment Day To tears of shame, reciting by heart The poems you would have written, had Your life been good. - W. H. Auden, About the House Auden is writing to a fellow poet here, an…
Giving God Back The Things He Gives Us

Keeping a close eye on Jesus, the Pharisees sent spies who pretended to be honest.They hoped to catch Jesus in something He said, so that they might hand Him over to the power and authority of the governor. So the spies …
A Question About Loving Christ First

"To love others, one must first love Christ".Despite having learned that all my life, I never quite grasped that concept before. It just never really made sense. Why can't we do both kind of at the same level?The way …
The Lord's Prayer: A Closer Look

Much of the following is based on the book Becoming The Answer To Our Prayers by Shane Claiborne and Jonathan Wilson-Hartgrove who remark that "prayer is not so much about convincing God to do what we want God to do as …
It's Always A Good Time to be Thankful!

Tonight, on my way back from my girlfriend's house, I began to think about all the things that I was thankful for. Especially in the past few years, many things have happened to me (or not to me) that never could've occ…
Why Read the Bible? In Times Of Tragedy You'll Be Thankful You Did

I've settled into school. It is such a blessing to be here. I wanted to share a sermon that I listened to today and the story of the Pastor giving it. I really encourage listening to this--the talk is 40 minutes long…
Praying for Revelife (And Your Own Blog)

I've previously written about my concern about Xanga and Revelife, including that I've been praying for this blogging community. (For example, please see here, here, here, here and here) Why should we pray for Revelif…