May 19, 2007

We do not proclaim a formula but a hope. Christianity today is more about leading people into a formula to believe rather than of a hope to believe in. We attract people to our churches with programs instead of truth. I believe if you want to get people to be interested in your philosophy [concept of truth] do not try to make it relevant with the current competing philosophies but make it rational.

May 15, 2007

The Bible speaks of spiritual realities but it does not promote a method of how to perform spiritual realities. All these preachers who go to college and learn how to interpret scripture get jobs where all they seem to do is allegorize scripture. They present meaning in metaphors and similes instead of teaching their flocks how to read scripture themselves. I think we as a flock have become accustomed to hearing what we think is inspirational instead of understanding inspiration [encouraging] comes from intellectual understanding. Real inspiration believes in something with courage, and knowledge is the only way to know what you believe in. Without a confidence in what we believe we can't stand for what God has taught.

May 2, 2007

I am not worshiping a God who will not pour out His wrath. I am worshiping a God who desires not to pour out His wrath.

The Bible is about what God has done, not what you are to obtain.

I [cleaned the carpet at a] house today and saw all the pictures of his late wife. The fact of her being alive even now was just overwhelming. I know she is as alive as I am and if she is in the presence of God, she is even more so. I understand you can go to her grave site and pull up her body today. I also know when people remember her, they don't necessarily consider the physical body as who she was. It will be the personality who will be discussed and remembered, not her body. Her person is alive now wherever she is.