Two days till Christmas. I hear murmurings that this season of Advent leading up to Christmas just doesn’t feel as jolly or within the norm of holiday tidings of the past. I’ve pondered over why that might be because if I am honest, I am a bit in a lull of “getting into the spirit of Christmas” this season as well. Some have said that due to such a late Thanksgiving the plunge into preparing…
Part 9: Final Conclusions, Disillusionment with Church For the Church to embody being a living organism of God’s presence in the world, we must know and embrace our power in order to emanate it. As cliche as it may seem, Peter Parker a.k.a. Spiderman got the best advice. “With great power, comes great responsibility.” The Church has great power, therefore great potential and we mustn’t squander it. Facing a New Day and Age Living in…
If we are so wounded by our church experiences that each time we go we can’t see past our emotions, then I’d say it’s time to take a break.
The Church are people worth fighting for, otherwise, Christ died for nothing.
I’ve never spent much time considering walls, fences, barriers of any sort. To be quite honest, unless you are in the business of fence building or ranching I don’t know who does? Most of us would say we rarely take notice of a fence or wall in our daily lives. So why bother writing about them? This summer our family wandered over to South Africa to visit friends and former China teammates–a long-awaited reunion. As…
