Years ago, when I first started attending church, I thought I had to “look good and be good”. I believed that I needed to appear as if I had my act together and never messed up… and if I did, no one need ever find out about it. The good news is that I was dead wrong.
Archives for July 2013
On beauty and worship
While I enjoyed touring the churches, my visits were a mixed bag for me. For example, one of the more disconcerting things that I encountered was a commemortive to Charles Darwin in Westminster Abbey. I hope that I will not offend anyone when I say this, but for me Westminster Abbey was more museum than house of worship. I was awed by the rich history of England as I toured, but little about what I saw around me pointed me to worship of God
Made in God’s Image
Maybe seeing others as the image of God is part of how we can fulfill the command in Philippians 3:3 to regard the needs of others higher than our own needs.
Book Review: Cold Case Christianity by J. Warner Wallace
A while ago, J. Warner Wallace approached me about doing a review of his book, Cold Case Christianity. I was aware of his work as a result of reading the Cold Case Christianity Blog and was interested in reading the book so agreed to to the review. Read on to get my thoughts on the book.
