Poetry

Poem: Heart Surgery

‘Ouch, God, Please don’t poke me there That hole in my heart hurts Please take care!’ “Healing I can give you I am more than able Just give me permission To place you on the operating table” “The surgery is ...
Faith

7 Reasons Why Your Faith is Wrong

Exercising faith is pleasing to God. It shows that we believe in Him and what He’s capable of doing, even when we do not see it yet. Faith trusts in the future God-Kingdom and even calls that future into the ...
Faith

A Virtue of Virtues

by Eric Demeter In one of my favorite movies, The Last Samurai, the character Nathen Aldren is a retired American soldier from the 1800’s, who gets hired to train an army to fight rebel samurai warriors in Japan. He travels ...
Faith

The New Christian 4-Letter Swear Word

If you love me, obey my commandments. -Jesus We are disobedient people—a lot like Ancient Israel actually. Their theological history forms the basis for ours, but unfortunately, their disobedience does as well. From the Beginning, Humankind was bent on disobeying ...

What We Do Know

Mark Twain is supposed to have said, “It’s not what I don’t know about the Bible that scares me, it’s what I do know 1.” I agree with him. When we ponder stories from the Old Testament of God’s wrath ...