Recently I came across a section of the story about Jesus as written by the author Luke (Luke 12:13-34), where Jesus was advising his listeners to be rich toward God rather than storing up money (v21). He uses an illustration of a man whose crop harvest had been particularly fruitful one season, so he decided [...]
I had a conversation the other night with some Christian brothers about working hard to make more money. Is it wrong to become rich? What does it mean to be rich? One Christian we have usually assigned authority to and so agree with was known as Paul the Apostle. Some of what he said regarding [...]
Christ lives in us. When the Jewish people lived in ancient times God lived among them. When God’s son Jesus was born he dwelt among the people. The most powerful being in the universe has always made the decision to live among people and inside people… this is who he is. Our problem has always [...]
For one of my uni subjects I had to look at the following video and discuss it: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sagg2C30RMk. The idea that in every situation that requires a moral decision there is only one simple choice functioning (i.e. to choose between expensive shoes or the life of a child) as Peter Singer suggests in the video [...]
Recently scientists have released a document http://climatechange2010.realviewdigital.com/ that admits that climate change and its driving force global warming are a serious problem threatening earth’s future unless something is done to reduce the buildup of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere, which they believe is highly likely caused by human beings. In a reading for one of [...]
There is power imbalance everywhere in the universe from the smallest particle, to the largest galaxy, larger triumphs over smaller, faster over slower, skilled over unskilled. In a better world one ruled by love, differences between weak and strong would serve to enhance people’s lives. In the world we live in, Death has claimed 100’s [...]
I sit here in the corner, in the dark while allergies are suffocating me. Tissue in hand I begin. My heart weighs heavily as I ponder the mornings events. Not so long ago I had to say goodbye to my son. It feels like the most horrible thing. His teacher has to wrench him away [...]
The following link has some interesting statistics about christians who live on the fringe of church attendance: http://www.barna.org/faith-spirituality/362-millions-of-unchurched-adults-are-christians-hurt-by-churches-but-can-be-healed-of-the-pain It looks like there is a lot of confusion out there (and in here), regarding christianity. For me personally I have no qualms about being involved in church community again, as I probably will some time in [...]
“sin doesn’t have power over dead people… Christ died… never to die again… we died with Christ… you must think of yourselves as dead to the power of sin” (Paul, (1st century AD), letter to Romans ch. 6). Paul really had a profound grasp on how Christ’s death affected all of us. He is basically [...]
I have been watching Star Trek Voyager which follows the travels of human beings in a star ship through the distant reaches of the Milky Way galaxy. The show is set four hundred years from now, and is based on the idea that human beings stopped warring among themselves a long time ago, and through [...]
