Meeting At Night ( Read more... )

Wow

I'd rather not preface this night's activities with an adjective that could taint deliberation. I visited the DePaul Students Against the War group tonight on DePaul's campus. When I went snooping around their student center on Monday, I found a student newspaper that discussed the activist group's beginnings and goals. It happened to mention the ( Read more... )

I explored a new part of Chicago: Clark Street from Wilson to just south of Fullerton ( Read more... )

I was watching late-night PBS again. (cue chorus of groans)

This week's NOW documentary was focused on the wars in Afghanistan and Iraq. I got to see marines in action, inaction, and interred. The Iraq segment of the program had a lot of local interviews and on-assignment camera feeds. It talked about the frustrations that the soldiers are ( Read more... )

Our free will is not equal and opposite to God's Will, one is dependent on the other. They are interactive in such a way that if you lack the essential and primary part, the other cannot exist. But if you lack the second, you are not Christian. Mercy without Justice cannot exist. Justice without Mercy is not Christian. Justice is the background ( Read more... )

I am doubting my stance on the TNIV translation. This insight is again a present from Professor Joe Murphey.

Human words cannot comprehend God. Our language is not capable of conceptualizing Him. We are created male and female. Over centuries, our history can be characterized by sinful male dominance of women. God reveals Himself through the ( Read more... )

Sarah:
Have a dystopic wedding with a dystopic cake, dystopic pictures, go back to your dystopic home, make a dystopic life with four dystopic children and have a happily ever dystopic after life.

Think of all the possible words that finish this statement:

God is _____________.

These usually include words like Omnipresent and Omniscient and other superlatives. What is the one word that we can do? The one word that implies an action, not simply a state of being. Which word is our command and basic tenet?

God is Love. Think about that.

Husbands love your wives.

And that's all the verse or the subsequent has to say to me.