I don’t believe authority figures in the kingdom are supposed to act authoritative with towards other people. All through the bible you see Jesus commending people to be servants, to consider others better than themselves and to put themselves at the end of the line. There is no reason anyone should assume that there should […]
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I’m trying to add some new things to the site. Last night I procrastinated from my work and spent sometime learning some new scripts and the result: a random quote generator. I get to add my own quotes (which I lost most of them when my computer crashed a few weeks ago), and thought there
Authority: Working Under the Top Read More »
One thing I have struggled with through my lifetime is the understanding of authority; more particularly church authority. I’ve been told by people in pastoral positions that I need to listen to whatever they say because they are my spiritual God-ordained authority. I’ve seen this authority abused so many times. I’ve seen pastors try to
Authority: Its an Issue Read More »
Here are the reasons I listed on my first post of why i was creating this blog, let’s see how I’m doing. I figure its good to re-evaluate after a year of being online, to see where i can improve, if i need to add anything or take anything away. 1. For fun, and to
Today is the one year anniversary of my website. Happy birthday to my website. Get me a birthday present by clicking on every single google link. A debrief of the past year will follow soon.
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I think this is going to be my last post on the subject for a while. If you want to understand more on a subject such as this there are other authors/theologians that hold similar views (as far as I know) on the Bible. One to try if you want an easy read is Brian
The Bible: How Then Shall We Understand It? Read More »
The bible wasn’t originally written with verses and chapters. That may come as a surprise to many; others have already stopped reading because they knew that already. While chapters and verses have helped many remember where specific stories or ideals are in the bible and help keep our sacred text organized at times I think
The Bible: Verses and Chapters and Why They Don’t Do Justice Read More »
There is some discussion resulting on the last post on the Bible, so you can read it there. I will comment on some of the posts soon. I’m going to post as I have time, and when my mind is working properly, so that might end up being two a day, or one a week.
Bible: The Greatest Myth Ever Recorded Read More »
Over the past two years or so I’ve gotten a lot of questions about my thoughts on the bible and what it is and my views on it. From sitting down with concerned pastors, questioning friends, seeking unbelievers to curious ministry partners I’ve attempted to explain my view on the Bible and the place it
The Bible: A Redemptive Historical Narrative Read More »
One of the things that I have been accused of in the past little while is sort of an anti-intellectualism. My ability to say ‘I don’t know’ in almost every situation bothers people. Sometimes the fact that I can argue both sides of an argument (ask my intro to religion tutorial students) fairly convincing bothers
Growing through Change Read More »
“I’m going shopping.” I’ve heard this phrase a number of times in my lifetime. It seemed normal. When I was younger, Phil and I used to go to the mall for no other reason but to be at the mall and to shop. People of all ages go to the mall to ‘shop.’ When we
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First Question: What’s the shortest verse in the bible? Almost everyone who knows useless facts of the bible knows that the shortest verse is ‘Jesus wept.’ Second Question: Why is he weeping? If you didn’t know, it’s during the story of Lazarus, when he is dead for four days. This verse didn’t make much sense
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So after staying up till 8:00am this morning and seeing Darryl off to see his girlfriend and Jon off to work, I decided to get a few hours of sleep in before I had to be at a few appointments. I did what i had to do and got back to work on my computer,
Just a Little Thumb Drive Read More »
One of the things that I love about having a website and a blog is the fact that it allows me to be transparent. I can be real on here and express how I’m actually feeling about situations, life or ideals where in person in many cases I feel restricted because I don’t want to
Had A Bad Day Again Read More »
Since I’ve been at York I’ve been on a mission. I’m no longer studying just my faith and everything that comes along with it, now I’m studying other people’s faith and studying my faith like I’m standing outside of myself. So with this opportunity I decided that I was going to try my best to
My Faith vs Everyone Else Read More »
I’m beginning to notice this trend within and around the church scene where we seem to attempt to bring people in to our church by luring them by grace. We tell them that it doesn’t matter how sinful they are, or what they have done, God still loves them anyway. It sounds wonderful doesn’t it?
Tonight I was planning on going to bed a bit earlier than usual, so around 2am, but I got sidetracked by a Chris Rock special on the Comedy Network. For some reason I couldn’t pull myself from the screen. Sure he says the F word in a minute more than I’ve said in my entire
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My roomate Nathan Shurr is funny. He says “September is over, someone should go wake up Green Day.” That’s humour at its finest.
I got an e-mail today from an Ollie Erickson, it was a great e-mail, and challenged me a lot. He had been reading my blog for a bit and pointed out that some of the things that I say in my entries (ie. sarcastic comments, stupid one-liners) and some of the comments that are made
Small Needs to be the New Big Read More »
Yesterday I was walking toward the pick-up spot to where we were meeting for our ball hockey game. The hockey-game where I almost got my eye poked out and just have a few bloody cuts there instead. I live in a trashy apartment building with four other friends who make this specific home amazing. As