When your world is falling apart, what is it that is actually changing so drastically? It cannot be anything that can affect your salvation. It may be a change in your role - or what you thought your role was - in the story of salvation. When Peter was called from his boat, when Paul... Continue Reading →
What are You Afraid of?
As we start another week, what is it that you are afraid of? What is keeping you from doing the miraculous, the amazing, the incredible for the Kingdom of God? Peter could step out of the boat and take a few steps, until he became fearful - even when Our Lord was right there in... Continue Reading →
We Don’t Need Another Manifesto
As Christians, we know what we believe. It is expressed concisely in the Apostle's Creed or more completely in the Bible itself. We have a vision. It is that of the Kingdom of Heaven, of Eden and existence beyond the Judgement, where the ideals we desire, justice, truth, and charity are perfectly expressed. We have a... Continue Reading →
Why I Write Short Books (and Blog Posts)
The Eternal Revolution can now be ordered from Amazon, and I am still awaiting my first shipment from the printer. As this latest books finds its way into people's hands, one of the first things you will notice is that it is relatively short for a book. At just over 6,000 words and 40 pages... Continue Reading →
The Wind, The Trees, and Revolution – G.K. Chesterton Guest Post
This essay, which appears in the volume Tremendous Trifles, is an important one to me and the idea of Eternal Revolution for (at least) two great reasons. First, it explains the idea that revolution is never the actions of mankind, for the revolution must always start as a spiritual movement towards an ideal. Second, it reminds us that... Continue Reading →
Cheap Entertainment: First World Temptations?
One of many popular memes these days is the "First World Problems." A frustrating issue for a particular minor problem that frustrates someone in our modern society that really is pathetically irrelevant to most people in the world. For the visually inclined, these are usually delivered on a graphic of a woman crying. Some examples... Continue Reading →
It’s Not For You
The first thing you see when you open up The Eternal Revolution, or at least before you get to the main text of the book, is a warning: This is a book written for Christians, that is, those who accept that Jesus of Nazareth was the Christ, the Messiah, the Son of God, the Second... Continue Reading →
All For the Glory of God
"Whatever you do, do all to the glory of God." 1 Corinthians 10:31 As Christians, we hear the instruction to do everything for, or to, the Glory of God. But what does it actually look like when we do things for His glory, and not our own? The story of Gideon is a great... Continue Reading →
Pagan Christian Churches
Over the past few years, I have been reading some of the trendy business strategy books that have been coming out. I'm not convinced it has been particularly useful, for other than Seth Godin there have been few, if any, that seemed to offer much in the way of advice that should be applied to... Continue Reading →
Athesim is Dead
In 2009, Joss Whedon created a moderate stir when he gave speech in response to receiving the Outstanding Lifetime Achievement Award in Cultural Humanism at Harvard University's Memorial Church. You can see his brief speech below: Some Christian bloggers protested the blasphemy in his speech, but it should have been the humanists objecting. "...there's a lot... Continue Reading →