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Photo Friday ~ An Everyday Adventure
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Forging a New Path, Photography Tagged: bad days, good days, photography, spirituality
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The Hard Work (and Absence) is Starting to Pay Off!
Here’s the cover of my upcoming Spiritual Warfare/suspense novel entitled “In the Path of Judgment”. A brief synopsis follows. Hope ya’ll like it! This labor of love will come to fruition in the...
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Four Thoughts From Non-Christians About Christians (repost from Thom Rainer)
I couldn’t have said this any better myself. This is a great article on perceptions of Christian attitudes, evangelism, and acceptance from Thom Rainer. Several weeks ago, I wrote a post about how...
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Hypergrace
A persistent church disease is that congregations behave like country clubs instead of field hospitals. The spirit of the Pharisees has never died. Good boys, i.e., respectable achievers with money,...
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Weekend Rewind ~ Oh, How Far We’ve Come in Two Years!
I was reading some old posts the other day and ran across this one from Sept. 12, 2011. Oh, how far we’ve come and how much I personally have grown in two years…with a lot more to go, for sure! So, in...
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Religion is Easy…Until It’s Not
Religion is easy, until we’re asked to give something up. And eventually, we are all asked to give something up. Usually, it is that one thing we value the most: that thing we’ve clung to, built up,...
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Why Intelligent People Are Less Likely to be Religious
I thought this was an excellent article from Jordan Monge in Christianity Today’s online platform: My story is almost always met with surprise: How could an atheist convert to Christianity at Harvard,...
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Why Hope and Vapid Optimism Are Not The Same Thing
One of our pastor’s used excerpts from this blog post from Nadia Bolz Weber within his sermon this past weekend. I thought there were some very good, insightful points in here: …suffering produces...
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Storms, Seasons, and That Occasional Sinking Feeling
2 Corinthians 1: 3 Praise be to the God and Father of our Lord Jesus Christ, the Father of compassion and the God of all comfort, 4 who comforts us in all our troubles, so that we can comfort those in...
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A New Surreality (…That Was My Dad.)
On Wednesday of this last week, my Dad had replacement knee surgery. By Saturday at 3 o’clock in the morning he was gone. Just that suddenly. Just that unexpected. He came home from the hospital on...
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Lights Please….
When I was a kid, and even up to this day, there’s no Christmas special I look forward to quite like “A Charlie Brown Christmas”. You can have your “Silent Night’s”, your “Holly Jolly’s” and your “fa...
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The Best of Spiritual Drift/2013
I close 2013 with the top seven, (because ten is, like, so predictable), most visited posts of Spiritual Drift in the past year; some surprising, some not so much. For 2014 I’m looking forward to...
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Faith: As Relationship? Or Science Experiment? (part two)
To follow on from my last post, just as couples attend marriage seminars to help strengthen their bonds, as even the healthiest of relationships can often use tools of support, so I am taking some time...
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Photo Friday: The Devil Says…
Filed under: Countering (and encountering) Spiritual Drift, Faith & Spiritual Drift, Photography Tagged: belief, photography, theology
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Science Is Right, Always. (Always!…Always??)
I firmly believe there’s this intangible thing–something that may in fact be unique to humanity as a species–that the field of science is unable to put its finger on. Yes, scientific study can discern...
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Photo Friday: What Of It?
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Grace and Spiritual Drift, Photography Tagged: photography, spirituality, theology
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God’s Imperfect Creation
18 And I tell you, you are Peter, and on this rock I will build My church, and the gates of Hades (the powers of the infernal region) shall not overpower it [or be strong to its detriment or hold out...
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Dude! Why So Negative??!
I had some very interesting responses to my “I’m Curious” question last Wednesday: “What Does the Term ‘Not Biblical’ Mean To You?” (click here to join the fun) But one overarching sentiment cast its...
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A Pause for Contemplation: The Mystery of Holy Saturday
I thought this was an excellent article and cause for contemplation on this Holy Saturday. What must the disciples have thought in those hours and days between Jesus’ death on the cross and his...
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Education > Outrage
I ran across this article over the weekend, wherein a man in Florida is petitioning the city council of Deerfield Beach, FL to let him open a council meeting with a prayer to Satan. His letter reads as...
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