Monthly Archives: April 2010

What have I learned?

I have learned two things in the last cou­ple of years from talk­ing with oth­ers in the same sit­u­a­tion as me. What is this com­mon sit­u­a­tion? We are attempt­ing to run from God. Yes, I have been run­ning from a call­ing for years. A call­ing to what I do not know, at the min­i­mum, a

Change and Transition

Here we go, mov­ing back into time. I came across an old arti­cle that I read sev­eral years ago dur­ing my divorce. It pro­duced some pro­vok­ing thoughts. Until recently, I had never really thought about change or tran­si­tion. How­ever, some­times these things are forced upon us against our own choos­ing. One of the tar­geted areas

Should A Divorced Man Be Permitted To Serve As A Pastor

When intro­duc­ing the issue of divorced men being con­verted into pas­tors there are many opin­ions. With the high pro­file divorces of Randy of Paula White and Charles Stan­ley still fresh in peo­ples’ minds, the evan­gel­i­cal world is ask­ing ques­tions and won­der­ing. Can a divorced clergy mem­ber min­is­ter effec­tively? There is no blan­ket answer and the

Knowledge and Miracles

Is sci­en­tific exper­i­ment the only way to achieve real knowl­edge? If you expe­ri­enced a mir­a­cle, would you trust your expe­ri­ence? Why or why not? To believe that sci­en­tific exper­i­ment is the only path to knowl­edge is absurd. Par­tic­i­pat­ing in this class proves this ques­tion false. The answer would be a resound­ing no! Humans dis­cover knowl­edge through per­sonal