Posted by Editormum on 28 April 2010 in
Philosophy,
Religion I learned an important lesson from a room-mate nearly fifteen years ago, and some recent events have brought it to mind again. The lesson is about blessing and being blessed. In the mid-90s, I was working in the Chicago metropolitan area. The majority of the staff lived in company-owned housing, in an arrangement similar to [...]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, injury, Jesus, kindness, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 14 January 2010 in
Religion We tend, in our human minds, to think of levels or degrees of sin. There’s the little white lie that “doesn’t hurt anybody,” and there’s the really evil-wicked-mean-bad-and-nasty stuff like murder and rape. So we see Hitler as this depraved man responsible for the murder of six million Jews, and think “He’s a terrible sinner!” But [...]
Tags: Christianity, forgiveness, grace, Jesus, Religion, sin
Posted by Editormum on 10 January 2010 in
Philosophy,
Religion,
True Stories I’ve been thinking a lot about crosses lately. I daresay that sounds a strange topic of thought — it’s C.S. Lewis’s fault. Between Mere Christianity and The Screwtape Letters, I’m getting a lot of input about what Jesus meant when He said that each of His followers must “deny himself, take up his cross daily, [...]
Tags: challenges, character, Christianity, faith, fear, grace, Jesus, karate, pain, parenting, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 24 December 2009 in
Religion,
True Stories So we’ve talked about this special Baby who came into this world, why He came, and the circumstances into which He arrived. But the story doesn’t end with the birth of a boy baby. Oh no. If that were the end of the story — well, it wouldn’t be much of a story. No! A [...]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, faith, holidays, Jesus, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 23 December 2009 in
Religion,
True Stories I closed yesterday’s post by saying that Christmas is all about the baby in the feedbox. Because that Baby was Someone special. God incarnate, come to tread on the soil of His creation, to rectify the wrongs done by the creatures He’d created, and restore them to fellowship with Him. Do you know that story? [...]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 22 December 2009 in
Religion,
True Stories It’s Christmas time, and what attention can be pried away from the presents and the parties is focused on a feedbox in the stables of a second-rate hotel in a small farming town in Israel. No, seriously. Did you ever stop to think how the Christmas story told in the Gospels would sound if it [...]
Tags: Christianity, Christmas, creche, holidays, Jesus, nativity, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 3 September 2009 in
Philosophy,
Religion,
True Stories I am on a crusade to de-clutter my house, which means that there is a lot of sorting and evaluating going on in my life right now. One of the biggest sources of clutter in my life is books. I love books. Almost any genre, any subject, any age. I like to hold them, touch [...]
Tags: books, Christianity, cleaning, clutter, decluttering, encouragement, Hansi, Hilter Youth, Jesus, LibraryThing, Maria Anne Hirschmann, Nazi, Religion, Spire Comics, works salvation
Posted by Editormum on 10 August 2004 in
Education,
Religion Jesus was not … Long-haired. Jesus would have had short hair, a beard, and possibly long sidelocks. The confusion comes, I think, from a confusion of Nazarene (which Jesus was) and Nazirite (which He wasn’t). A Nazarene is a person who comes from Nazareth, a city in Israel. A Nazirite is a person who has [...]
Tags: Bible interpretation, Christianity, Jesus, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 28 April 2004 in
Philosophy,
Religion There’s a lot of debate about this story in Jesus’s life. Some say it shows Jesus getting seriously irked by an inanimate object that had no reason to have figs on it, since it wasn’t fig season; therefore, Jesus was just a man who got mad for no good reason—clearly refuting any claims of divinity. [...]
Tags: Bible interpretation, Christianity, Jesus, Religion
Posted by Editormum on 18 November 2003 in
Philosophy,
Religion There is a debate going on right now in various blogs on the Blogging Network about whether it is right or wrong for a Blogger A to censure (not censor) Blogger B for what A views as offensive, blasphemous, or inappropriate material. In one series of comments, it was suggested that the offended person should turn [...]
Tags: Bible interpretation, Christianity, Jesus, Politics, Religion, respect, WWJD
