Faith: The Real Deal vs. Phony, Flimsy, Fake Faith

There is a common trend in faith communities.  In secular communities. Sweeping across the thinking of a broad spectrum of people. It’s a trend called the power of positive thinking. It is the thinking that if we hold out an image (like a God) and believe in it… Hard enough…..Long enough…..With faith enough. It will come […]

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Martin Luther Was Right: Christ Sets Us Free

John 10:2,3,7,9   “But he who enters by the door is the shepherd of the sheep.  To him the doorkeeper opens, and the sheep hear his voice; and he calls his own sheep by name and leads them out.  Then Jesus said to them again, “Most assuredly, I say to you, I am the door of the […]

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Barrenness

I sit under the wide open sky… And wonder…. How far, deep, and wide His love is. How the earth seems to breath underneath me. And how expensive comforters…. And  mattresses… And beds…. And houses…. Somehow seem to suffocate the breath of God around me….in me. And I ache for even more barrenness….  Where nothing matters….but […]

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