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Book Review: Searching for God Knows What by Donald Miller
“I am not attacking right theology. I am simply making theology a window rather than a wall.”
I had not read anything by Donald Miller since reading both Blue Like Jazz and it’s companion book, “A Million Miles in a Thousand Years.” Then my brother recommended Searching for God Knows What. I was searching for a good book. Donald Miller was searching for God. Again. In a way, I was reminded of how I seek after God, even when I think I’m not.
Sometimes Donald Miller, founder of Storyline Blog, feels like being a Christian is like trying to be in the circus, and everyone is watching him to make sure he does everything right and doesn’t mess up. In fourteen chapters of deeply personal writing (with titles like “Santa Takes a Leak,” “Why Nudity is the Point,” and “How to Kill your Neighbor”) Miller dares us to see Christianity as something not defined by formula, but by relationship.
What is a Christian T-Shirt?
What is a Christian T-Shirt?
It’s a question the answer to which helps us see how notions of how to show Christ to the world has changed and is still changing. How do I represent Christ, and how to I behave like him? Clothing, gear, things purchased—this is as much of the conversation as it was in the first century. Can the answers people give tell us a lot about how they prioritize the morality of Christian behavior?
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“Singing Praise to God, Not America” by Craig M. Watts
“Singing Praise to God, Not America” by Craig M. Watts
“Singing Praise to God, Not America” by Craig M. Watts
Walking Around with Your Eyes Closed and I John 1
Have you ever walked about a room in darkness? You’re bound to bump into something.
Have you ever walked about in a lit room with your eyes closed? You are slightly less likely to bump into something.
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On Calling God “Dad”
(No, this is not one of those posts by illiterate scribes who guilt you out of addressing God in intimate terms.)
In scripture, the Father is sometimes addressed with the word “Abba” accompanying “Father“.
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“Heaven is for Real”; Fiction About Heaven Labeled Non-Fiction is Not
“Heaven is for Real”; Fiction About Heaven Labeled Non-Fiction is Not
David Platt talking on why “Heaven is For Real” and other books like it extort our hopes, waste our money, and devalue our scriptures—and thus should be ignored by Christians.
Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: God and The Problem of Suffering
Dr. Bart Ehrman v. Kyle Butt: Does Suffering Prove the God of the Bible Doesn’t Exist?
A captivating debate. It does begin to spin out of control come time for the question/answer session, especially when they get to the topic of moral prerogatives.
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So you created an app?
Billy Nye, Ken Ham Debate on Creation: Questions I Wanted to Ask
As Bible students like me come across various debates such as these, questions arise that sometimes are not addressed. Here are some I wished would have been asked:
Questions I wished they asked Bill Nye:
1) How did matter arise in the universe, if no extra-physical/supernatural entity brought it about through extra-physical means?
2) If there is no creator, how do you explain why the universe is rational and we as conscious beings an understand it as rational?
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