Nietzsche, Nihilism, and the Church’s Identity Crisis
One decade ago, God is Not Dead proved to the entire world that Nietzsche was wrong. The problem is that America doesn’t understand Nietzsche—we understand what the American church has…
A Widow’s Two Mites on Perspective & End Times
We may be tempted to embellish the story or to assume we know how it ends. Neither Mark nor Luke lets us have the pleasure. Once Jesus talks about her, she doesn't show up again. Jesus doesn't say that her rent will be provided, will have food the next day, or that her unspoken health condition will be healed. There is no promise. A poor widow, in that time and society, gave the last coins she had and left with no answers.
Voices in My Head – Learning to Talk to Myself
"What do you feel when you're talking to yourself?", they answered without hesitation "Guilt." That guilt and shame about talking to ourselves actually keep us in the same patterns and thinking the same thoughts that produce the behavior that produces the life we wish would be different than it was. And I am so good at it.
