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Interestingly, as I was wandering around in the dimly lit world of psychoanalysis, a pressing question continued to nag at me until I finally decided . . .
Three out of every four people have, to varying degrees, some sort of dysfunctional experiential/emotional relationship with God. In September of 2006, Baylor University published . . .
There is only one way to grow a loving relationship with someone and that is to spend time with that person. We can think about . . .
In the first two articles in this series, we discussed how experiencing God’s loving presence changes our attitudes, values, thoughts, feelings, desires, and behaviors because . . .
I heard my whole life that the Grand Canyon was magnificent and awe-inspiring, and in my head I believed that to be true. Then, one . . .
I’ve always been fascinated by the way John begins the first of his short letters: “That which was from the beginning, which we have heard, . . .
The Church is Christ’s body, his beloved bride, and chosen instrument for ministering to the world. Local churches are supposed to be “kingdom outposts” intended . . .
My earliest memories of God centered around a small Methodist church located in a tiny north Mississippi town my mother’s family had faithfully attended since . . .
A few years ago a friend of mine was at a crossroads and reached out for help. His formative years were spent in an insecure . . .
Several years ago, I received a phone call from my niece, Madison: “Uncle Phil, I prayed to receive Jesus into my heart tonight. I know . . .
I have been addressing people’s questions about the Bible for decades now. That doesn’t mean I have all the answers; however, it does mean that, . . .
In Jesus’s commission to make disciples of all nations, he includes “teaching them to observe all that I commanded you” (Matt 28:20). Notice that Jesus . . .
“Fake joy.” Those words hung in the room as the young man sat quietly, working through the realization that he had been conditioned over time . . .
In Princess and the Goblin, George MacDonald shares a beautiful story of a grandmother who deeply loves her granddaughter. Wishing her granddaughter to walk in . . .
As exemplified in the Hadad-Yithʿi bilingual inscription discussed in part one of this series, it is difficult to grasp how the image of god would . . .
Our world is captivated by success. The cult of celebrity. Reality TV. The pursuit of wealth, status, and power. Materialism. Ladder climbing. Most kids now . . .
How many of us could confidently answer the question, “What does it mean to be made in the image of God?” If you’re not raising . . .
“A giant statue of a king on his throne . . . sort of like Zeus.” I walked down to a small lake and found . . .
The theology of weakness is threaded from Genesis to Revelation.2 It is found in its most developed form in the Pauline epistles and peaks in . . .
Human beings have an innate attraction to strength and corresponding prejudice against weakness. Though our views of what constitutes strength or weakness are culturally bound, . . .
In the spring of 2004 during my freshman year of college, I sat on the bottom bunk inside a friend’s dorm room scratching my head. . . .
A few years ago, my roommate and I decided we wanted to road trip with the greatest dog in all of God’s creation—Corrie the German . . .
As we bring this series to a close, it is imperative we address what is for many the elephant in the room, so to speak. . . .
As we’ve seen in this series, love as the controlling center of theology traditionally has either been neglected or ignored.1 But it hasn’t always been . . .
Generally speaking, the Reformation of the sixteenth century stirred up quite a bit of religious vigor that went far in reshaping the religious (and political) . . .
I have had twelve years of formal theological training. For the vast majority of those years, I considered the love of God as a moral . . .
“Emotion.” For some, even saying or hearing the word activates . . . emotion. But what is it? Or perhaps the question is, “What are . . .
As we saw in part one of this series, not every theologian begins from the same theological starting point.1 Different historical and cultural contexts have . . .
In May of 1999, a historic F5 tornado ripped through my neighborhood destroying homes and disrupting lives. Just hours before the storm turned my hometown . . .
