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…
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…
There is no doubt that authority has been abused throughout history. I can say the name Hitler and everyone cringes. Should this sort of authority be present in the church? Was it meant to be…
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…
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…
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.
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…
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…
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,…
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…
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…
“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…
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…
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…
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…
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 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…
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…
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…