Bad Religion Leads to Bad Times
Toxic religion (or bad theology) leads to bad times! We need to get our theology back on track. In ministry, besides all the wonderful positive loving persons I've been privileged to call friends, I also have encountered about every form of negative emotions and habits, unhappiness, and utter joyless people present in the church and the world. Since the culture has a way of thoroughly penetrating the life of the church, the two are often too similar to each other even
Losing Our Religion
I like a lot of rock music. Do you remember R.E.M.'s classic song Losing My Religion? The group never intended it to say anything about religion or even about Christian faith—the title comes from a Southern expression meaning to "lose one's temper or civility" or "feeling frustrated and desperate." But the song set me on another track of thinking: When we blow away all the cobwebs that surround our thinking on what Christianity is, we will realize that the best
“The Abiding Life” — Summer Bible Study Continues
The word "religion" occurs only four times in the Bible. What the Bible does exhort is a life in Christ—a close, personal relationship with God our Father, not a bondage system to some indeterminate, controlling deity. "Religion put Jesus on the cross… Religion is striving after God, but Jesus brought God to man, and man to God." Join us at 16:00 hrs as we continue our study on "The Abiding Life" and learn more truths about what Christians believe. Photo credit:
