Finding God In A Snowy Morning
I woke up early last Saturday morning, before dawn, when the world about me was still and dark. I quietly crept downstairs and opened the drapes in the living room to look out upon a world newly draped in a soft blanket of snow. The plough had not yet passed. Under the glow of a nearby streetlamp, I could see snowflakes gently falling to the earth.
"What...
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Is It Arrogant to Say Only Christianity is True?
Are Christians arrogant for believing they are right? Christians have been deemed as egotistical -- even bigoted -- for believing in Jesus Christ and not being accepting of other religious views. How do the claims of Christianity fare against claims of Buddhism and Islam? RZIM explores the topic of Christian arrogance, the authenticity of Christian...
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Love can be dangerous
Do you crave intimacy? Has love betrayed you? Often, our lives begin with a need for love, and our life stories consist of searching for it.
Love can be dangerous. One reason is that it's volatile. A passionless relationship may not have much excitement, but neither does it have much capacity for failure. When you aim low, for mere companionship,...
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Do you crave meaning? (Part 1)
Everyone has "cravings" ... desires and needs that must be fulfilled. We can try to ignore them, deny them by calling them illusions, or fill them with meaningless things, but ultimately that won't satisfy us.
Maybe these cravings, which can't be satisfied adequately by any of the things in this world, aren't there by accident. Maybe they are...
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Do you crave destiny? (Part 2)
Do you crave destiny? Destiny doesn't mean passively entering into tomorrow, to be a victim of the cruel and unchangeable fate of the universe. Rather, it is becoming actively engaged in the creation of tomorrow, and discovering the purposes you were always meant for.
In this video (this is part 2, watch part 1 here) author Erwin McManus explores...
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Do you crave meaning? (Part 2)
How do we understand our world? When we experience things, do we base our understanding on ourselves?
If our meaning in life is based on our emotions, this meaning will always change. If our life is going well, life will seem great. If it's not, it'll seem terrible. This is why finding real meaning in life requires more than just me. It has to...
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Love Calls God to You
Do you crave intimacy? Has love betrayed you? Often, our lives begin with a need for love, and our life stories consist of searching for it.
Regardless of what you've been through, no matter how far you've wandered away from God (or how often you've shrugged with indifference), love moves God to you. And there's nothing this world needs more than...
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