There is nothing like sitting around on a Saturday afternoon and watching Straight Talk with Dolly Parton on TBS. By the way, that is one of the more underated movies out there.

I think the defintion of spiritual maturity is found in Hebrews 5:14 when the author writes, “Solid food is for those who are mature, who have trained themselves to recgonize the difference between right and wrong and then do what is right.” This verse says that maturity is when you not only know the difference [...]

Thoughts on Romans 7:15-25
Who we are now is shaping who we are becoming. That is to say, what we are doing in the present is determining who we will become in the future.
We live in a divided state. On one hand we are who we are now. On the other hand we desire to be [...]

I’ve really been doing alot of reading and thinking on the topic of spiritual formation lately. I’ve been doing some writing on the subject over the last couple of days and I’ll be posting some of those thoughts over the next few days.
I’ve been noticing this really sick trend in my online class at Luther [...]

There’s a big piece of you in everything that’s me.

The presence of the Spirit will, I think, mainly be known as we act on the biblical texts. - Lachian
We, modern Evangelicals, tend to think that meaning is intrinsic in the text. We treat the text as a deposit of residual facts that refer to something in the past. Our goal as interpreters is to [...]

Jerry Coleman writes on the topic of Verbal and Lifestyle Proclamation of Christ in my online Spiritual Formation class. I’m starting with this specific selection, but there has been a couple of weeks worth of posts before this post and my responses.
Jerry Coleman writes:
Come on …….. To say that lifstyle evangelism fulfilles the great commision [...]

This my response to the topic of Counterfeit Spirituality in my online Spiritual Formation class.
Colossians 2:23 says, “These are matters which have, to be sure, the appearance of wisdom in self-made religion and self-abasement and severe treatment of the body, but are of no value against fleshly indulgence.” (NASB)
There is definitely counterfeit spirituality out there. [...]

The modern Protestant church is so scared of anything that has a hint of “Catholic” in it. In many respects, SOME of the sacraments that the Catholic still practice, were a vital part of the early church. Sadly, after the Reformation, we don’t touch these sacraments with a 10 foot pole. And in the process [...]

Said in a Bush-like voice: “Was has commenced.”