I’ve heard a lot of sermons where people talk about how people will let you down, but God never will. They say that when you have relationships with people, we need to know this and accept it with each other. This is a truth that is logical and accepted by me.
But boy, does it stink [...]
Thought for today:
When a lot of Christians talk about heaven, they’ll talk about streets of gold. You know what I’m talking about. We talk about the riches of heaven, so we talk about passages like Revelation 21:18-21. The new Jerusalem is built of gold and encrusted with precious gemstones.
It made me think when I was [...]
The event that sparked this happened a few weeks ago, but I wanted to post it because I thought it was an interesting revelation.
There’s a news blog that I read called The Daily Beast. There was an article concerning Islam - the content was irrelevant, but it prompted a Muslim person to make this comment:
In [...]
Buzz and I will be in Nicaragua this week (3/8 to 3/15). This means that there will be no update for Wednesday. I had hoped to get them queued up before I left, but this nasty little 8-week course that is finishing really soon (note the time this was posted…I haven’t gone to bed yet!) [...]
It happened again.
This time, it’s a pastor from a church called Planetshakers that’s located in Melbourne. Australia’s Herald Sun reports that one of their pastors faked having cancer to avoid owning up to a pornography addiction that spanned 16 years. And apparently it was a convincing charade - unexplained illnesses that started around the same [...]
As I write these articles, I find that I don’t want to inject too much Brendan into them. I’ll tell a story or something, but I want the articles to have a timeless element to them and I don’t want to be a narcissist. However, I’ve felt restricted at times with this, so I’ve been [...]
There are a couple of things that I find amazing about what happens when I teach, be it a Bible study at school or an article here. First, I find that when I start writing about a subject, I see it going on either in my life or all around my life. Second, I get [...]
I could spend years on this. Or not. Probably more like days. But I don’t want these blog posts to be marathons and I don’t want to steal RMU’s thunder when I finally update my blog over there.
To those who want to study abroad, I say do it if you have the funds. It’s been [...]
Shortly after the year 2006 started, I found myself facing what has been my single biggest spiritual battle to date. I had had some big stuff happen in my spiritual life and shortly thereafter I had this period where I could not connect to God for the life of me. I’ve never felt so dry, [...]
So ZA has been active for just a couple of days now, not even a week, and I finally get to test the feature I was most excited about - comments! I’ve got a list of tweaks that want to make to make everything better, so keep a watch out for that.
If you have any [...]
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