The Jellinek Curve symbolizes and describes a process of alcoholism starting innocently and gradually getting into trouble, with increasing evidence of being seriously off track, until one spins around in chaos at the bottom of the curve, perhaps having been thrown out of one’s house and fired from …
Truth is like the light on a miner’s helmet
Truth is like the light on a miner’s helmet, illuminating for everyone the scene as it changes step by step. This amazing ministry of truth makes it more like a who than a what. This comes as no surprise to persons who know Jesus as the way, the truth, and the life; but the experience is not limited …
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Spiritual experience
Watch Mystical Maria: Talk of the spirit of God within is often a way of affirming that we can each have our own personal spiritual experience of God. We do not have to go along with stuffy traditional authority or superficial contemporary enthusiasms—even mine. Scientific Simon: All over the …
The supreme desire and the supreme joy
Watch the 4-minute video Listen to the podcast episode Read the clarified blogpost Evan: I came across a definition of the gospel that puzzles me because it’s different, but it really attracts me. The gospel—the supreme desire to do the Father’s will coupled with the supreme joy of the …
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What happens after you die?
Video (9 minutes) Podcast episode Sophia, a philosopher, and Evan, an evangelist met in Athens. She wanted to see where Socrates, Plato, and Aristotle had been, and he wanted to see where Paul had preached. Evan shared his Christian understanding with Sophia, and she shared her …
The beautiful wholeness of righteousness
R Watch the 10-minute video Listen to the audio file Righteousness gets a bad name because of two distortions: legalistic religion that tries to control matters that should be left to individual freedom, and self-righteous swagger with its hostility toward broad classes of …
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