Some have mocked the distress and angst supposedly expressed by evangelicals over so many young people’s “deconstruction” of their faith and why it is essentially not a rejection of Jesus, but is rejection of institutionalism and politicalization of...
In our ministry we relate the spiritual growth of a person to that of a butterfly’s life cycle: first is the initial stage-the egg. It contains all the potential that will be needed to become what God intended. As it becomes an immature caterpillar it eats, grows and...
Abraham Maslow said that humans NEED peak transcendent experiences with the divine for becoming their fully best selves….. how sad that Western institutions lopped off the top part of his “hierarchy of needs”, omitting spiritual transcendence, and...
Thinking About One’s Progress Toward Christian Perfection……… 6/9/21 CBB As part of a discussion of the Wesleyan doctrine of Christian perfection, we have been tossing around individual perspectives on what it looks like to pursue sanctification and arrive at...
I’ve always been intrigued by Simon Peter’s name change dubbed by Jesus and the way in which, at particular times of reprimand, Jesus would resort to his former natural flesh-life name and when Jesus was seeing something more promising and worthy of...
