After spending over ten years of my spiritual journey being shaped by the charismatic renewal something began to happen to me in 2004 and 2005. I became aware that the “charismatic” label seemed not to fit me anymore. For a long time, I proudly wore …
Read MoreJesus is coming, just not May 21
Primal Credo Chapter 7 I wonder what Harold Camping will do on May 22 this year. Camping is a part of the group declaring the world will end on May 21 and this cataclysmic end of the world includes the return of Jesus. He gets …
Read MoreThe Second Alive
Primal Credo Chapter 6 Death is the silent specter hovering over every human being who has ever lived. We try to shield ourselves from thoughts of death, but we have all been touched with the sting of death as we have watched the death of …
Read MoreThe Death of God
Primal Credo Chapter 5 The death of Jesus makes it impossible to ignore him. His teachings continue amaze the masses, although the masses tend to misunderstand him. (His stories and sermons were neither common-sensical wisdom nor universal principles on how to do life. His teachings …
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Primal Credo Chapter 4 Every mother can tell you the coming-into-the-world story of each of her children. They are often unique. I have witnessed the birth each of my three boys and they each came into the world in their own unique way. Wesley, my …
Read MoreWe Follow the Lamb
Primal Credo Chapter 3: Jesus We believe in God. This conviction puts us on a different trajectory from atheists, those who do not believe in God, but there is nothing uniquely Christian about claiming belief in God. From Primal Credo, chapter 3: The overwhelming majority …
Read MoreFather & Creator
Chapter 2 The creed opens with “I believe in God…”. Everything else the creed has to say is oriented around this life-altering statement. Our creed is much more about God than it is about us. This may disappoint some people, but it is necessary to …
Read MoreI Tremble at the Thought of Belief
Today is a good day. I am happy to announce the official release of Primal Credo: Your Entrance into the Apostles’ Creed. Writing this book has been a laborious, but worthwhile, 10-month experience. It started last summer when I began to hammer out the opening …
Read MoreThe Blog is Back
So as you can see, I have not blogged since October 24, 2010, more than six months ago. Shame. Shame. Shame. I am now blogging for the first time this year and there are a few reasons. Let me explain: First, I have been writing …
Read MoreThoughts on a Christian Nation
I am happy to be a part of a Christian nation. It has become my sense of identity, my place to belong. I didn’t choose to be a part of the nation, I was born into it. It was not my choice, but I am …
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