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September 2013

September 18, 2013

Begin a New Life: Examining Ourselves

Back in April, I posted on "Begin a New Life," the spiritual growth program developed...

August 2013

August 26, 2013

Really Living

Yesterday I preached on the story of Jesus raising Lazarus from the dead as recorded...

May 2013

May 28, 2013

Want to Believe? Start Doing

This past Sunday, I preached on the Lord’s parable of the rich man and Lazarus...

May 21, 2013

Oklahoma

I have a tendency to turn everything into a philosophical or theological discussion. But right...

May 15, 2013

The Universe Is Like an Analogy

An article in the New Scientist argues that analogy is the core of human thinking....

May 11, 2013

New Church Links

A few New Church / Swedenborgian articles and videos that I enjoyed this week: 1.)...

May 08, 2013

“Grace Is Not Opposed to Effort, but to Earning”

I'm a bit ashamed to admit that until I heard of his passing today, I...

May 03, 2013

Do People Become Angels?

As I mentioned in my previous post, Andrea Garrison’s book In the Presence of Angels...

April 2013

April 26, 2013

The Most Important Website You Will Ever Visit

OK, the blog title may be a bit of an overstatement. Or maybe not. For...

April 16, 2013

Is the New Church a Cult?

I'm not a huge fan of using the word "cult" to describe religions one considers...

September 2012

September 15, 2012

Is There Marriage in Heaven?

Are there marriages in heaven? The most obvious answer would seem to be no, based...

July 2012

July 26, 2012

Going Deeper in Genesis

Lots of mainstream, even conservative, Christian scholars advocate reading Genesis 1-11 as something deeper than...

July 23, 2012

The Problem with Study Bibles

I hate study Bibles. Why? Same reason I hated textbooks in high school: an authoritative...

July 12, 2012

Blogging the Bible: Acts 6-7: Jesus as the Fulfillment of Scripture

Right now, I have access to only one thorough, scholarly Bible commentary series: the Word...

June 2012

June 18, 2012

Blogging the Bible: Acts 4-5: Resurrection and Obedience

The Primacy of Jesus's Resurrection Acts 4 and 5 continue to describe the ramifications of...

June 14, 2012

Blogging the Bible: Acts 3

Who is Jesus? Acts 3:11-15 Now as the lame man who was healed held on...

June 13, 2012

Blogging the Bible: Acts 2

I’m not going to be commenting on every chapter in Acts, but I’ll comment on...

June 12, 2012

Blogging the Bible: Acts and Epistles

For most of my life, I did not read any books of the New Testament...

May 2012

May 28, 2012

Chapter 1 of “12 Miracles”: “Healing from Feelings of Unworthiness”

This post is part of a series on 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth by E....

May 21, 2012

12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: Introduction

(E. Kent Rogers, 12 Miracles of Spiritual Growth: A Path of Healing from the Gospels, Swedenborg Foundation...

May 03, 2012

Walking on Water

This past Sunday I preached on Matthew 14:22-33, the story of the Lord walking on...

April 2012

April 25, 2012

All Evil is from Hell, All Good from the Lord

"If man only believed, as is really true, that all good is from the Lord...

April 15, 2012

Fishing on the Right

In the Lord's third appearance after the resurrection (as recorded in the gospel of John),...

April 07, 2012

The Lord’s Temptations – A Good Friday Sermon

Readings: Psalm 22; Luke 23:26-56; Arcana Coelestia 1812 “Father, forgive them, for they know not what...

March 2012

March 27, 2012

The Triumphal Entry

This morning, in preparing for Palm Sunday, I was reading the account of the Triumphal...

February 2012

February 21, 2012

Salvation and Jesus: A Challenge

I want this blog post to be a challenge. In the New Church, we embrace...

February 13, 2012

Waiting on the Lord

Yesterday, I preached in Dawson Creek and Grande Prairie on waiting for the Lord, based...

February 10, 2012

How I View Swedenborg’s Writings

New Church Perspective has finished publishing my two-part essay on how I read the Writings: Part...

January 2012

January 20, 2012

The Little Way

There’s something about St. Thérèse. Until a year or two ago I’d never heard of...

December 2011

December 20, 2011

The Christmas Tableaux

On Sunday evening, the Dawson Creek Church of the New Jerusalem held their annual Christmas...