This is the initial blurb to a series of posts on suffering and trials (Part 1, Part 2)
People don’t change when they see the light. They change when they feel the heat.
We experience the greatest periods of growth during our trials and hardship. Not when the going is good. Treat hardship not as suffering but [...]
Entries from July 2008
July 31, 2008
A Quote of Encouragement for the Spiritually Dry
July 27, 2008
What is “Inferior?”
Eastern medicine doesn’t fit into Western medicine. It is an entirely different way of thinking and a different system. Just as translation between different languages can never be truly complete in nuance, length, literary devices and both literary and figurative richness, different languages just work differently. Eastern medicine cannot be proved or disproved by western [...]
July 25, 2008
The Importance of Effective Prayer
Therefore, confess your sins to one another, and pray for one another so that you may be healed. The effective prayer of a righteous man can accomplish much. Elijah was a man with a nature like ours, and he prayed earnestly that it would not rain, and it did not rain on the earth for [...]
July 24, 2008
The Most Important Thing
When asked what is the central, most important aim of Christians, everyone has something different to say. From “being a good person” to “becoming like Christ” to “knowing God,” you’ll hear the whole spectrum.
Lately, in a book I am reading on prayer, the author makes the case for prayer being the most important thing. Initially [...]
July 22, 2008
Traps in the Jungle: Naturalistic Failings
The approach is naturalism (I’m referring to the view that all things are natural, that there exist no supernatural reasons nor causes) is testing for something in the laboratory in controlled conditions when all is being watched. It is a subset of all that happens outside and can only be a good representation given the [...]
July 22, 2008
The Test of Undoing
Twelve mere men to change the world? Twelve disciples to start a worldwide revolution?
What is made by man can be undone by man. But as for what is of God, who can undo it?
Biblical Precedent
But a Pharisee named Gamaliel, a teacher of the law, who was honored by all the people, stood up in the [...]
