Not So Boring
Every now and then God shows a sense of humor. A month or so ago I wrote a post titled Don’t Be Boring. It was a simple encouragement to keep expanding our lives so we…
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Good Grief!
I’ve decided to submit a doctoral research proposal on the Peanuts comic strips. Hang with me and I’ll explain. When I was a kid, my mom had a standing deal with me: she’d buy me…
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Don’t Be Boring
Are you spiritually boring? Am I? The older I get, the easier it is to become boring. One year I’m bushwhacking my way through the rainforest with a machete, but in the blink of an…
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Help My Unbelief
If you asked me to choose one passage that best captures the strange relationship between faith and doubt, I’d probably land on Mark 9:24: “I believe; help my unbelief.” That may be the most honest…
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The Centurion
My recent posts have focused on doubt. Not because I’m pro-doubt, but because I think we have become uncomfortable with honest questions. We’ve created cultures where uncertainty feels dangerous, so people hide it. That’s unhealthy….
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Doubting Saints
Last week I wrote about doubt. It’s worth looking at a few biblical examples because, frankly, a lot of bible characters were not exactly poster children for emotional consistency. And maybe that’s good news. The…
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The Sanitization of Doubt
The ironic thing about confidence is its comfort with doubt. This struck me over 30-years ago when I was leading a bible study at my church. As an elder, with a mandate to model faith,…
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Salvaged, Not Sorted
I’m pretty confident that heaven will be full of people who drive me nuts. Some of them will have theology that makes my eyes twitch. Some will hold opinions I argued against, wrote books I…
