God describes himself as our Father. It is interesting to me that God did not describe himself as our Mother. In the picture, this is the softest most gentle father possible. It is number 1 on google. Why pictured so soft? God could have said he is our mother. He is a Spirit. I have already written about the problem of grace with not enough truth. Today my topic is related somehow. In the Bible, I can see that God …
Welcome to God Gave Me Life Part 2. Part 1 is here. I went to college at West Point. However, I kept reading the Bible every night and continued to have trouble praying. I would always fall asleep. After four weeks of grueling Beast Barracks, July of 1983 at West Point, they gave us four hours off, and I heard an announcement that any Christian could come to the chapel office for 1 of those hours. Of 1400+ freshmen (called …
Each of has our own background. I want to tell you how God gave me life. It may be hard to understand how hard it is for a baptized child in a church attending family to be nearly immune to God’s love. My parents and siblings all had that problem. The problem is that if someone shared the gospel with us, we would say we are already saved. I got baptized and went to church every week and even gave …
Wolves among the sheep today? M Scott Peck wrote a Road Less Traveled which I will likely blog on someday. However, today I want to talk about his second book, called The People of the Lie. Scott was a humanist psychologist who became a believer while writing the book, The Road Less Traveled. So spent quite a while in the US church when he started to piece together some things in his counselees and some in the church members. Then …
