Change your mind…change you!
Is your mind the same thing as your brain? Well, your brain is an organ; your mind isn’t. Which sounds crazy, but there you have it. To which neuroscientists reply,…
Author: Dr. Ronald Campbell
Relationship or religion?
Following Christ should be deleted from the list of world religions, because it’s not a religion. Following Jesus cannot be defined by the practice of sacraments. Anyone can practice them.…
Shemaiah
What is a prophet, and what is he or she supposed to do? Shemaiah was a prophet who lived around 930 b.c. He is mentioned only twice in the Bible…
Self-Help?
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”2468″ img_size=”full” alignment=”center”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The gospel is not self-help! God is not even remotely into self-help. If we had the power to help ourselves, then God would have been an idiot…
The Tree of Knowledge is still alive, tempting . . . and deadly
The world is too much with us; late and soon, Getting and spending, we lay waste our powers;— Little we see in Nature that is ours; We have given our…
Some thoughts about prayer
I’ve said before that prayer does not make you a Christ-follower. But, if you are a Christ-follower, prayer makes you an increasingly better one, because it makes you more and…
An amazing adventure!
The church has been devolving for centuries, closing in on itself, becoming less the living body of Christ and more a religious organization. Those who have seen it happening thought…
Hail ye hollow men!
We are the hollow men We are the hollow men Leaning together Headpiece filled with straw. Alas! Our dried voices, when We whisper together Are quiet and meaningless. T. S.…
Chosen
Jesus said, “many are invited, but few are chosen.”[1] A Christ-follower is someone who has been chosen by Jesus by choosing Jesus. We need to take off our religious hat…
Some recent news made me think
[vc_row][vc_column][vc_empty_space][vc_single_image image=”2445″ img_size=”full”][vc_empty_space][vc_column_text]The National Academy of Sciences says a third of all plant and animal species on the Earth could be wiped out in the next fifty years. It is…