4. Spiritual anxiety is fed by an emphasis on wealth and status. The message should be clear: material wealth, the latest technology has to offer, creature comforts—none of them can satisfy the spiritual needs we were created with. And an over-reliance on them can actually hurt us. You can everything in the world to liveContinue reading “It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 4)”
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It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 3)
1. We begin by recognizing the anxiety has a spiritual component. Human beings possess a mind, a body, and a spirit. That’s who we are. It is how God made us. Consequently, to think about anxiety only in terms of the mind and body is a failure to treat it fully and completely. It overlooksContinue reading “It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 3)”
It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 2)
Anxiety seems to be everywhere. Every day we hear reports, stories, and statistics about it. It’s like the pandemic came along and took the lid off our anxiety jar and everything started spilling out. But that perception isn’t entirely accurate. According to research conducted by The American Psychiatric Association and The U.K. Council for PsychotherapyContinue reading “It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 2)”
It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 1)
Monk aired from 2001 to 2009. It achieved the requisite hundred episodes to enter into the afterlife of syndication, so you can find it today in the cable/satellite tv world as well as on some streaming services. Monk is a police procedural show, a dramedy, but mainly it is about Adrian Monk. He had beenContinue reading “It’s a Jungle Out There (Anxiety & Faith, pt. 1)”
Yearbooks and Anchors
One of the great things about You Tube is that you can watch your favorite musicians and musical groups as they perform their best songs. It’s a neat way to travel back in time and relive whatever music you grew up with. I was doing this not too long ago. The group I was listeningContinue reading “Yearbooks and Anchors”
Grace, Faith and Transformation
God is in the transformation business—He’s always changing things. He changes caterpillars into butterflies. He changes the seasons. He changes CO2 into food for trees and oxygen for people. He changes the food we eat into energy and replenishment for our cells. And while it’s true that God does these things through the natural world HeContinue reading “Grace, Faith and Transformation”
Making All Things New
The weather where we lived then had been dreary for a couple of weeks. It had rained almost every day but more than that, it had been overcast with very little sunshine. I’m not normally a person who pays much attention to that kind of thing but it was hard not to notice. A portionContinue reading “Making All Things New”
You Can Be Good Without God (1)
That was the headline of an article that appeared in USA Today. It was written by Jerry Coyne, a professor of Ecology and Evolution at the University of Chicago. It was fairly representative of what we’ve been hearing from New Atheism. Let me begin by (gladly) stating the obvious: there are untold numbers of people who doContinue reading “You Can Be Good Without God (1)”
Grace and Discipleship
Luke tells us that “crowds were traveling with Jesus” (14:26), and that’s precisely the problem. Everyone has gotten on the Jesus bandwagon but few, if any, have any understanding of what it means to be a follower of His. Jesus remedies this with a hard hitting discussion on discipleship. Three times He uses the phraseContinue reading “Grace and Discipleship”
Wineskins, Patches and New Life
Readers of Scripture encounter two undeniable truths as they pore over the gospel accounts of Jesus: He came to bring a new way of living, Most people weren’t interested (after all, He was crucified). Probably a third truth tracks subconsciously through our minds as we read about Him: I wouldn’t have treated Jesus that way.Continue reading “Wineskins, Patches and New Life”
