Category Archives: Worship

What if There Were No Heaven?

February 18th, 2010 | Posted in Bible, Prayer, Religion, Theology, Worship

(This post originally appeared on the now defunct centurybound.com blog on December 22, 2005. It appears here with some major rewrites from the author.)
While surfing the internet, I happened upon the blog of an atheist who was asking the following question of her readers:
 “How many people would believe in a god if there were no [...]

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The Lesson of Babel

February 12th, 2010 | Posted in Bible, Prayer, Worship

It’s spiritual. It’s relational. It’s intimate. It’s done best in the context of one life touching another as directed by the divine. No implementation of a protocol can replicate that, regardless of how well intentioned or engineered.

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Living in the Shadows

January 7th, 2010 | Posted in Bible, Prayer, Religion, Spiritual Warfare, Theology, Worship

I would like to begin this post with an apology for my lack of posting. It has not been my intention to neglect The Imperfect Disciples’ Blog, but as I explained to my co-contributor Todd recently, I have found myself in a bit of a writer’s funk. Please note that I said “writer’s funk” rather [...]

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Majesty in the Manure

December 25th, 2009 | Posted in Bible, Religion, Spiritual Warfare, Worship

The stench of sweaty, unwashed people most likely mixed with the foul odor of the livestock and their decaying offal to create an overwhelming odor that I honestly cannot begin to imagine.

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The Activist God

December 10th, 2009 | Posted in Bible, Prayer, Spiritual Warfare, Worship

More simply put, God isn’t a disinterested third party. He isn’t the Watcher from Marvel comics. He isn’t a neutral observer that mediates disputes in his creation. God is an interested entity with an agenda. He has skin in the game as it were. He is a being that is seeking his creation’s best interest as he defines it.

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