The root of all evil. They say it’s money (don’t they?). Or if you talk about what’s the foundational sin, the root of all sins, the sin underneath our outward acts of sin, they say it’s pride.
Pride.
Well, I don’t buy it.
What is pride, anyway? When I try and connect the word pride with some of my sin patterns, [...]
Archive for the ‘personal’ Category
The Root of All Evil
Posted in Christ, Christianity, God, Theology, evil, life, personal, religion, sanctification, sin, spritual formation on December 19, 2008 | 17 Comments »
The Job, the Interview, & the Cross
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, faith, life, personal, prayer, religion, spirituality, stress, work on November 23, 2008 | 8 Comments »
So, here’s where we are at.
I am pretty much at the end of my tether re my job. I often start the day with “I hate my job.” However, after having read the Bible each AM (a few months ago, after my doubting phase, it was the only thing I knew I needed to do regularly), [...]
Taking a Hiatus
Posted in Christianity, God, Jesus, Suffering, Thoughts, life, personal, prayer, spirituality, spritual formation, stress on June 24, 2008 | 6 Comments »
Greetings, any wanderers who stop by these parts. I haven’t written or even visited my blog or WordPress for 2 weeks. Haven’t even checked the stats!!
I do have two more “doubt” installments I’d like to share, but something has come up that pretty much stopped me in my tracks.
Panic attacks.
I am not sure what’s going on with me. [...]
Wondering about Doubt?
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, Theology, Thoughts, doubt, faith, life, personal, prayer on June 8, 2008 | 2 Comments »
Or, wondering if doubt has got me down (and out)?
Don’t worry (as if you were!).
My doubts have not driven me from God nor the blogosphere. I’ve just been slammed at work and will be for a while longer. So no bi-weekly posts lately.
It seems the doubting episode has faded (see last few posts about that [...]
The Perfect Church, Part 2: Community
Posted in Christianity, Church, God, community, family, life, love, personal, random, relationships, religion, spirituality on March 23, 2008 | 7 Comments »
Like I said in a previous blog on this subject (The Perfect Church, Part 1: the Sermon), I am writing this post as a consequence of the overwhelming response I got to my post called Why Should I Go to Church? I thought I would write down what for me are features of the perfect church.
In part [...]
The Perfect Church, Part 1: the Sermon
Posted in Bible, Christianity, Church, God, grace, life, miracles, personal, religion, sermon, sin, spirituality on March 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
I keep getting a lot of hits on my posting in which I asked: Why Should I Go to Church? In the comment section, I promised to write a multi-part essay on my idea of the perfect church. So, here goes.
Let’s start with the sermon (part 1). What constitutes the perfect sermon for me?
Glorifies God
I’d leave the sermon with my mind [...]
Why Should I Go to Church?
Posted in Bible, Bible Study, Christianity, Church, Jesus, family, life, personal, prayer, relationships, religion on March 16, 2008 | 18 Comments »
My family left today for spring break. My husband and daughters are travelling miles and miles, over bridges, etc., etc. to Grandmother’s house.
I am staying home to work, sleep (been sick), and generally get caught up in life. After the family drove off, I had just enough time to get ready to go to church. But [...]
Spiritual Formation and Crap
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, Suffering, hurt, life, personal, prayer, religion, spirituality, spritual formation on March 1, 2008 | 12 Comments »
I’ve had a crappy couple of weeks at work lately. Fact is, I am there now. It’s lunch. So I am writing (well, it’s not lunch anymore. I finished this on Saturday…).
Then I read this hilarious article on the subject of crap, care of a Laurie Kendrick’s blog.
So it got me thinking.
If you are not familiar [...]
How Could a Good God Allow Suffering?
Posted in Christianity, God, Jesus, Suffering, Theology, Thoughts, books, life, personal, religion, spirituality on February 21, 2008 | 7 Comments »
I plan on writing a blog on the topic soon… (I did: Spiritual Formation and Crap), but if you can’t wait for me to answer the question, I urge you: Do Not Pass Go; Do Not Collect $200; but run out (or go online) right now and buy “The Reason for God” by Tim Keller.
By the way, he [...]
Blog Slacker
Posted in Thoughts, blog, children, dogs, kids, life, personal, random, spirituality, spritual formation, work on February 11, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
I’ve been overwhelmed with work. And kids. (Can’t forget the dogs, too). Then I was out of town last week. Excuses, excuses, excuses. But the sad fact is: I have become a blog slacker.
In my slacker mode, I dig up a comment I left and then post it as a full-blown blog. How sad is that?
Then Treyka tells me I [...]
The Magnificent Seven (LOL)
Posted in Christianity, God, Marriage, children, dogs, family, kids, life, love, personal, relationships, religion on February 8, 2008 | 4 Comments »
Seven things about myself. An easy thing to blog about, and treyka told me I have to. So here are my sordid seven….
1. I met my husband online 13 years ago. We didn’t mean to. Weren’t looking. At the time, it was a really weird thing to do. So we took to telling people we met in ”an alien [...]
A Miracle Update
Posted in Bible, Christianity, God, Jesus, Thoughts, faith, hurt, life, personal, random, relationships, religion on February 6, 2008 | 1 Comment »
I got tired of looking at that last whiny post of mine (Trying to Get Over a Hurt ). Things actually turned out really well. I added a comment to that post about the little miracle that happened afterwards, but since you may not read the comments (and I have no time to think up a better blog…), I’ll [...]
Trying to Get Over a Hurt
Posted in Bible, Christ, Christianity, God, Thoughts, faith, grace, hurt, life, love, mercy, personal, prayer, random, relationships, religion, sin, spirituality, spritual formation, stress on January 27, 2008 | 9 Comments »
It started on Thursday. I won’t go into details, but someone got really upset with me Thursday and finally dumped it on me Friday. It shocked and hurt me. I’ve been thinking about it all weekend.
My husband will look over at me, see me stare off into space and say, “Do something else. Stop thinking [...]
There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!
Posted in Bible, Bible Study, Christ, Christianity, God, Heaven, Jesus, Theology, angels, children, faith, family, girls, grace, kids, life, parenting, personal, prayer, religion, spirituality on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]
There Are Angels Hoverin’ ‘Round Me!
Posted in Bible, Bible Study, Christ, Christianity, God, Heaven, Jesus, Theology, angels, children, faith, family, girls, grace, kids, life, parenting, personal, prayer, religion, spirituality on January 21, 2008 | 3 Comments »
Have you ever walked down a street a million times and then, this one time, you see something you never saw before? And it shocked you? You stopped and thought, “How did I ever miss that before?”
I had that experience the other morning. I was reading my daily Bible verses (well, I was catching up on [...]
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- The Dove and the Pigeon
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- Belated Request for Prayer
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- My Dusky Hour of the Soul
- God Loves You…
- Compelled by Love
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