MY DUSTY BIBLE
April 26, 2009 – 5:39 pmSome years ago I read a sign outside a church in a small town just north of Boston that read “Dusty Bibles lead to dirty lives.” It made me smile and was an amusing break from the usual trite and forgettable sentiments that one sees on church notice boards. I suspect, and I hope, it was meant with some humor, but something about that funny statement made it indelible in my memory.
This year I’ve tried reading the Bible, but to say I have found it hard going would be a an understatement. I feel like a teenager reading Shakespeare for a class they don’t enjoy. The language is hard, the context is harder, and for me the whole experience is about as enjoyable as going to the dentist.
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HOW DO YOU TALK TO GOD?
February 12, 2009 – 12:34 amWay back in the old testament it seemed that God would make several personal appearances, or at the very least send down a member of staff (an ‘angel of the Lord’) to speak on his behalf. If we’re to believe those old texts, back in those times God seemed far more interested and available to mankind. Yet today, in a world more connected and capable of communication than ever before, talking to God has been the only form of communication that seems to have become more difficult. So how on earth do you talk to God?
Maybe it begins the moment you start talking to God. “Hello God, it’s me, Simon.” But then what? Other forms of communication lend themselves to clear responses, conversations, and conclusions. But speaking to God seems far more ambiguous than that. We talk, he listens, or so we hope. But does he?
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