Changes in life don’t always occur by addressing something directly. Change can happen by addressing auxiliary or associated areas. So your house is freezing cold, turn the heater on. The heater isn’t fixing the problem! How is this possible? We must first close the windows and doors! Sleep is much like closing the front doorContinue reading “Sleep and Holiness”
Category Archives: Theology and Life
Sleep – Creatureliness and Dependence
A little slumber, a little folding of the hands. Yes, hello darkness my old friend. Sleep is a friend. For some it is a friend who visits regularly. For others, not as regularly as we’d like, and for others, we kick them out of the house too early to our own peril. In much theContinue reading “Sleep – Creatureliness and Dependence”
Comparing our Sufferings
When we go through suffering we often compare our suffering to someone else’s. We do this for a few reasons I think. Sometimes we are just trying to be polite as we confront someone who has suffered what we perceive as ‘more’. Sometimes we think it can help us get a perspective on our sufferingContinue reading “Comparing our Sufferings”
The Underwhelming Underworld
The ‘darkness within’ is a trope of popular movies and stories. There is a certain kind of relatability we have with the modern villains. But when it comes to the ‘underworld’ (that includes angels and demons, the devil, death and the spiritual realms), it’s out there in the darkness at the edge of society, certainlyContinue reading “The Underwhelming Underworld”
On Attraction
Recently I’ve been reading a very helpful book called, ‘Confronting Christianity: 12 Hard Questions for the World’s Largest Religion’ by Rebecca McLaughlin. It was published relatively recently – in 2019 – and it features a wonderful combination of McLaughlin’s sharp wit and a plethora of footnoted stats and research. Definitely worth a read if youContinue reading “On Attraction”
Conversations with JWs: Jesus the firstborn
The identity of Jesus as being both fully human and fully God is at the core of the Christian faith. However, it is also something that, throughout history, various movements and individuals have sought to deny – in one form or another. In the 2nd century AD, gnostic philosophy led some to deny Jesus’s humanityContinue reading “Conversations with JWs: Jesus the firstborn”
Death, Pass over.
Egypt, Judgement was coming. Justice was coming. Death was in the air. But where was mercy to be found when death abounds? Under the blood of a lamb. Blood, upon the door. It writes, this family belongs to the Lord. Death, pass over. But God’s people were slaves. Paying an endless debt to their spitefulContinue reading “Death, Pass over.”
Introduction to Conversations with JWs
A few years ago, when I was in Bible college, my husband and I were door-knocked by some Jehovah’s Witnesses (which I will refer to with the abbreviation, ‘JW’ or ‘JWs’). At the time, we were in the second year of our studies, and in our doctrine subject were learning about the Trinity. God wasContinue reading “Introduction to Conversations with JWs”
Does a baby’s spirit return?
Over the past few months I’ve had a couple of people express the idea to me that the spirit of a deceased baby returns with the birth of a subsequent child. While I realise that this idea may comfort some people, as a Christian I find it to be problematic with what I understand ofContinue reading “Does a baby’s spirit return?”
The Ironic Experience of Reading Psalm 119
I am not a naturally skilled reader. I also don’t enjoy reading a whole lot. It’s taken a good deal of intentional habit-building to start developing any semblance of wholesome habitual reading in my life. Perhaps you could call this a character deficiency. At any rate, it has put me in a funny spot asContinue reading “The Ironic Experience of Reading Psalm 119”
Bigvai and Shiphrah 