What do you understand the local church to be? Is it a group of people who all think in unison with a set of beliefs to which each has subscribed? Or, is it a group of people who are worshiping God together even though they may not all agree to what that means? I recently read a post on Travis Flanagan’s website Help Me Believe titled “What Is the Local Church” in which he provided this definition of the local church.Posts Tagged ‘Religion’
Church: A Band of Jesus Followers
Posted: April 28, 2018 in Christian Life, ChurchTags: Christ, Christianity, church, Jesus, Religion, spiritual
What do you understand the local church to be? Is it a group of people who all think in unison with a set of beliefs to which each has subscribed? Or, is it a group of people who are worshiping God together even though they may not all agree to what that means? I recently read a post on Travis Flanagan’s website Help Me Believe titled “What Is the Local Church” in which he provided this definition of the local church.Paco, the Man
Posted: November 30, 2017 in Life's DesignTags: Education, False reality, Medicare, politics, Reality, Religion, Self-importance, Taxes
I can be ferocious if I want to.
I ran across a note in my file from August 2013. Although it was written over four years ago, there is an uncanny aspect to its application for today and may affect the design of our lives tomorrow. In light of today’s climate in almost any segment of American society—politics, entertainment, and religion to name three—there is a pervasive attitude pregnant with outsized self-importance. This shaded truth is explained as an alternate reality as though one phenomena can have more than one factually based truth. Claiming something to be true and factual when it is only my interpretation is claiming authority I don’t possess. (more…)
What’s It All About? — My Blog?
Posted: November 5, 2017 in Life's DesignTags: Arts, Choices, Christ, cluture, Creator God, External Influences on Life, Faith, family life, God, Influences, Jesus, Life, Life's Design, political climate, politics, religio-political, Religion, values
Someone asked me recently what my blog was all about. I directed him to the “About” page on the blog and then gave him the short answer “How people shape their lives and how their lives are shaped by external influence.” Here is a longer answer: (more…)
Being Christian and Gay – Part 6: An Understanding of Sexuality
Posted: October 10, 2017 in Being Christian and GayTags: Christian, gay, Religion, sexuality, society
In this series on “Being Christian and Gay,” we have considered scripture and a Christian sexual ethic. In this post we’ll examine a general understanding of sexuality. There’s more, to being gay than the act of sexual intimacy. I, like you, both consciously and subconsciously are attracted to and seek to attract other people with whom to form deep relationships. This is the way we ward off loneliness. It is also the way we seek an intimate relationship. (more…)
