Considering answers to those faith-questions we all ask…
Tag: CHARACTER
1: KILL YOUR TELEVISION! The only vision some people have is their television... (BLAERG, "The Chattering Cyclops") Television takes your time, your mind, your money, your creativity and your imagination. It takes your children and turns them into God-haters. It takes your faith and trashes it with the most ridiculous lies about your origins. It feeds … Continue reading MIND BURP 12: GOOD AND EVIL
What you were may not be who you are, and what you are now may not be what you will become… WHAT I ONCE WAS An old friend sent me an e-mail with an equally old picture of me in it. After recovering from the initial shock of seeing myself so young and handsome compared … Continue reading BECOMING ME
People commonly use blogs to talk about their depression... There’s something very therapeutic about writing and expressing hurts and emotions, and of course there’s always the hope that someone will understand and perhaps care a little bit. (SPLINTRD "Alone on Parnassus") My motivation for discussing a struggle with depression here is firstly to observe and … Continue reading A DEPRESSION OBSERVED
1: YOUR EGO OR MINE? We all want others to feed our ego and our sense of self-worth. We all want to be flattered, admired and appreciated. But how many of us want to return the favor, particularly when that appreciation doesn’t pay us dividends in some way? Here lurks a most putrid of … Continue reading MIND BURP 11: BEAUTY AND THE BEAST
Some people are complaining that the Christian gospel offends them... (This post was first published over three years ago, and I felt it deserved another airing...) A very good friend of mine who isn't a professing Christian expressed his observation to me the other day that Christianity has a "bad press", and he suggested that this … Continue reading WHY THE CHRISTIAN GOSPEL IS OFFENSIVE
Fuel for Faith, Food for Thought 