Entries Tagged as 'Personal'

Tuesday, November 13th, 2007

Open Theism and Car Accidents

It’s an interesting thing what a near-death experience can do to your theology!
Up until Saturday evening I was on my way to being a full-on Open Theist and rejecting the hyper-sovereignty and hyper-transcendence of Calvinism. But, after experiencing what I did in my out-of-control vehicle and seriously sensing the the movement of God in the [...]

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Saturday, November 10th, 2007

Tonight I Should Have Died

It came out of no where.
Actually, no. I saw it coming.
He didn’t stop, and followed his friend…and just didn’t stop.
I tried to stop, damn it. I couldn’t in time. And I knew it.
I would have hit him, so I turned my wheel to go around him.
But that didn’t work.
I swerved and spun.
And swooshed in front [...]

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Saturday, October 20th, 2007

Sharing A Special Bible: My 1997 “Gift From Ken Pelton” NIV

Michael Spencer, famed blogger at www.internetmonk.com, wrote a wonderful reflective piece on a special Bible in his life. And here was his challenge at the beginning of the post: “I wonder if any bloggers out there would like to devote a post (and maybe a picture) to a Bible that has a special place in [...]

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Wednesday, October 17th, 2007

Life

Life is interesting right now…and I really am not in a blogging mood. I have some pieces that I’ve been working on and will hopefully post soon as I wade through some things, but in the mean time browse around what’s already sitting here!
be His today,
-jeremy
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Friday, October 12th, 2007

Confession on Revelation and Scripture

Today I turned in my Confession of Revelation and Scripture. It is for my Systematic Theology 1 class and will be used for my future ordination. It is theological in substance, but not in language as much as possible. So you will not find words like inerrant, verbal plenary, inspired etc… nor will you find [...]

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Thursday, October 11th, 2007

My Silence And Solitude Experience

In continuing the “spiritual experiences” theme from yesterday, I thought I would re-post an experience I had over 2 years ago. It can only be described as an existential encounter with God, an encounter that shook me then and re-shook me when I read through my post. I am a firm believer in personal, spiritual [...]

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Friday, October 5th, 2007

Seven Passages: The Stories of Gay Christians

UPDATE: I wrote a review here if you are interested in my thoughts and impressions of this well-done production.
Tonight I am seeing a play with a good friend of mine called, “Seven Passages: The Story of Gay Christians.” It’s a play that tells the stories of, well, gay Christians and apparently relates them to the [...]

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