Thursday, October 30, 2008

which part of the Trinity do you pray to?

Recently I heard someone express thankfulness for "sending your Son" in a prayer. That would seem to imply that his prayer was directed to the Father. I'm sure I've heard others express thankfulness in prayers for "coming to Earth to die". That would seem to imply that those prayers were directed to the Son. Then there's the rather generic "Spirit, come and fill this place" requests in yet other prayers.

I don't recall hearing someone pray to "you all" (contracted to "y'all"), however.

Monday, October 27, 2008

the most exclusive Christian is...

...the Christian, ahem "Christ-follower", who doesn't attend any church because he or she complains of and assumes that any church is too exclusive (narrow-minded, dogmatic, etc.). Not much chance of participating in a community of love and truth if one is congregating with oneself.

Friday, October 17, 2008

God is not weather

Remember how God is not luck? I'd maintain that God is not weather, either. The cold front that shifted, allowing you and yours to have a spotless family reunion, instead flooded someone else's basement. Be grateful to God, address your concerns, but please don't read Him into the movements of atmospheric gases similar to the way other folk read the future in palms and tea leaves.

Compare Him to the force and irresistibility of nature, if you are grasping for an inferior analogy, but don't be fooled. God has the power to create it, which is far more profound.