Hospitality

Today at work I was getting surprisingly hungry around 2:30 pm. This was after eating a great lunch of a chicken breast, mac-and-cheese, corn and a soda. It was one of the heartiest lunches I have had in a while but nonetheless I was hungry at 2:30 pm. You would have to know me to understand what happens when I get hungry. I become like one of those bears you hear about that breaks into someone's home and eats all the food in their cupboard. The results can be devastating. I always convey this hunger to my co-workers mostly because…

January 10, 2006  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)

Loneliness

Editorial Note: In an attempt to become more open on my blog, I am beginning to write more personal reflections about my own life. Over the past year, there has been a consistent theme of loneliness running through my life. Allow me to explain. This loneliness is not an experience without God but rather is a social loneliness in the place that I find myself in over the past year. I have experienced God nearer to me and walking with me, during this season, in a more real way than I have ever experienced in my life. In the midst…

January 07, 2006  |  Permalink   |  Comments (2)   |  TrackBack (0)

The Jesus Train

N.T. Wright uniquely handles eschatology in what I understand to be a much more Pauline sense of the word. In one particular handling of the eschatological story we find ourselves in, N.T. Wright explains how Paul sees the world around us. Paul understood in a radical way on the road to Damascus that God had brought the eschatological future into the present with Jesus. Wright uses the analogy of the train. The Jews, and hence Paul, living in the first century are on a train headed for an ultimate destination in time but suddenly they are met by another train…

January 03, 2006  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)

Official Launch of VOS REGNUM DEI

Welcome to VOS REGNUM DEI What an interesting greeting... not only have I just welcomed you to my blog but I have welcomed you to the Kingdom. "The Kingdom?!," you say. Yes, the Kingdom of God. That is what I hope to accomplish through this site. I want to welcome you to the Kingdom of God. In the first century, there was a man named Jesus who came from a town called Nazareth of Galilee. He was God's only begotten son. When he was grown, he began to proclaim, "Repent for the Kingdom of God is at hand!" Indeed, the…

January 01, 2006  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)

Strawmen and False Dichotomies

I have grown increasingly tired of strawmen being constructed in arguments and false dichotomies being created for the sake of argument. These two logical fallacies are perhaps the most frequently used and I would venture to say the least frequently recognized. A bit of background: A strawman is a false portrayal of the opposing sides position that is most often created for easy debunking. A false dichotomy is when a division is created or demostrated that may not be a real division or does not accurately represent other choices. Often called the false dilemma, it poses options which are a…

December 28, 2005  |  Permalink   |  TrackBack (0)