Month: February 2009

• Gnosticism is the feeling that in order be closer to God I need to know something more.

• Eugene Peterson: “…God is doing something before I know it.”

  “The assumption of spirituality is that always God is doing something before I know it. So the task is not to get God to do something I think needs to be done, but to become aware of what God is doing so that I can respond to it and participate and take delight in it.”…

• Watercolor: Old Car at Glacier Ridge

  

  P2230106 Originally uploaded by Timothyone

• The Protestant Neurosis

  Today we heard in church that “our significance is based not on what do or are, but on the fact that God loves us.”  That we have “a forgiveness-based relationship with God, not a performance based relationship”. This is the decision  that created Protestantism.   And our churches spend enormous amounts of energy reminding ourselves…

• Pyramid Religion and Parenting

  In Islam, God is the Ruler.  He sits atop the pyramid of the cosmos and watches everything down below to keep them all in their right place.  In this type of religion, the problem of our world is disorder and the solution is His will.  Force.  Dominion.  Obediance or rebellion.    All that matters is…