Wrist Slap I’m a contemplative Christian. That means, out of the main sources for my understanding of and relationship with God (Tradition, Scripture, and Experience), I lean towards the “experience” part. I meditate twice a day, walk in near-constant prayer, and worship with passion. I used to be more about the other two: tradition and […]
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Different Gifts, Same Spirit As Christians, when we submit our lives fully to Christ, the Holy Spirit moves within us powerfully for the good of all the Body of Christ and the world at large. In two different epistles, Romans and 1 Corinthians, Paul speaks of these varied Holy Spirit-bestowed gifts. Interestingly, these passages both
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The Chosen I’m four episodes into season 1 of The Chosen. I know, for a Christian blogger in 2023, this is probably bordering on shameful. I just don’t watch that much TV (typically I watch about an hour or two a month outside of family movie night). In episode 4, Simon (who will soon be
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Growing up, I saw Jesus as a fully divine being walking the Earth in a physical body. He clearly had spiritual advantages that other humans did not. I figured it was something like a math PhD taking a fifth grade math quiz along with a bunch of first graders (the rest of us humans) and
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What is God’s Name? When our oldest was in preschool, he would pray the “The Lord’s Prayer” (The “Our Father” to our Catholic brothers and sisters) at church every Sunday, loudly and proudly: Our Father, Who art in heaven, Howard be thy name. Thy Kingdom come, thy will be done, on Earth as it is
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Remember that story from the Bible about the little guy in the tree? His name was one of the most fun to say in Sunday School: Zacchaeus. Zacchaeus was short, but that wasn’t his main problem. He was a tax collector–not a well-regarded profession, and he wasn’t an honest one. He frequently overcharged folks just
