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Journal on Confessions: Week 3
We, as mere humans, spend so much time debating over topics which the majority of us have difficulty understanding in the first place. Inevitably, the greatest minds of humanity will spend their lives studying certain philosophical subjects on an existential level: debating the very fabric of reality itself. Their lives are spent toiling through constant contemplation and study for understanding of the reality in which we have involuntarily been placed, and each come to very differing and mostly contradictory conclusions.
What’s In The Mirror
The high school students walking into the auditorium didn’t realize that they were being set up. I had been invited to speak at a Christian high school in Bennington, VT. Prior to the kids walking in, I placed a full…
IF
IF. It’s a very small word. When I took a computer science course in college, I wrote a lot of ‘ifs’ while attempting to learn the Pascal programming language. Typically, a programmer would write, “if this happens…Then this should happen.”
Journal On Confessions: Week 2
Even when you read authors you do not agree with, it opens your eyes to thoughts and perspectives you have not heard before. Of course, this can help you in nuancing your own views of things.
Our Merciful God
Some movies just get real life characters right. For me the Somalian pirates in the 2013 film, Captain Phillips were played by actors who got their characters spot on.
Journal On Confessions: Week 1
The issue of Faith and Reason has been an integral part of my thoughts and discussions since becoming a Christian. In fact, even prior to my conversion, one of the main issues keeping me away from religion in general was…
On The Job On 9-11
On the morning of September 11, 2001, Father Mychal Judge was on duty. A Franciscan friar and Catholic priest, Judge served as Chaplain for the New York City Fire Department (FDNY). According to reports, when Judge heard that the first…
Because God
How does a simple word like because fit into our faith in Christ?
God Isn’t Concerned With Our Happiness
To many, this notion is upsetting and appalling. Many in our culture immediately stir up a counter argument against this idea by contending that God created us in His image, emphasizing that emotions are an important part of our overall…
Grace
By definition, grace is receiving what we don’t deserve. It’s fully lived out in God’s gift of his Son Jesus and Christ’s death and resurrection for our salvation. But, have you also thought about grace as one of the prime…
Don’t Wanna Leave
Ya'll move with timidity | Your practices are too gimmicky | Y'all pitch it as piety | You're lookin' like an enemy. . .
