Weaponized Morality
So this is where we find ourselves, having crossed the post-Christian cultural tipping point, where our transcendent appreciation of morality is being dragged off to the edge of town, to be thrown on the trash heap.
So this is where we find ourselves, having crossed the post-Christian cultural tipping point, where our transcendent appreciation of morality is being dragged off to the edge of town, to be thrown on the trash heap.
What thread could I pull through all the disparate parts of me that always seem to get lost in the cognitive white noise of my own self-serving explanation of who I am?
Because we were made in his image, by design our existence can only find its true orientation when we are in harmony with him.
Music is able to circumvent our usual cognitive filters so that we might know things in ways our intellect is incapable of explaining.
Time spent with others creating memories has a particular type of intimacy that lingers long after the events of such shared experiences have passed.
This song is my hands raised in surrender over that which I cannot change.
It’s funny how a single food item can have so many layers of memory associated with it.
Even the words of a stranger can alter the course of your day.
The Kingdom of God is found in the suspended disbelief of a child-like nascent expectation of a God who gathers us into his arms.
So with His praise on our lips, we join in on the song that the entire universe is already vibrating with — on every dimension.
Facts are inconsequential if ultimately there is no point to existence.
The common misconception about faith is that it’s somehow at odds with rational thinking, suggesting that a person of faith is being irrational.
So here’s what you should meditate on – we were never meant to have an identity apart from God.
Most people experience their lives so sped up that they seldom get a chance to take personal inventory or self-reflect.
Spreading the gospel is what this album and Rick’s career were all about.
Not Ashamed, now nearly 30 years old, has aged well. In fact, I find I like it more now than the day I first picked it up.
We’d much rather trust in the predictable certainty of our fears, than place faith in a hope that we can’t control.
We all pretend to know far more than we actually know.
And here’s the crux of the problem – we want an explainable world so we can place our faith in our own understanding.
This album holds up just as well after 30-plus years as it did the day I first popped the cassette into my mom’s car stereo.
Our culture has already assigned to you a social demographic profile that it expects you to live up to.
Everything about God’s creation is purposeful, ever drawing us back to him.
For those who have turned to God in faith, they have been set free to see his glory in all things.
A fully dimensional life requires a far wider emotional bandwidth than most of us are willing to maintain.