An Artist? “We are God’s art, created in Christ Jesus to do works of beauty, which God has prepared in advance for us to do.” Ephesians 2:10 “So God created mankind in his own image… male and female…” Genesis 1:27.…
Tag: truth
Beauty
A problem with language is, words can be defined in so many ways. A table can be a tiny and fragile thing upon which we can barely fit a tea setting, or a massive wooden slab surrounded by a dozen…
Love
Some time ago, during one of those periods when I have been obsessed with the goal of learning more about love, I came across M. Scott Peck’s The Road Less Travelled, in which he gave a definition I found plenty…
Posted in Church for Writers Tagged with: beauty, love, M. Scott Peck, St. Paul, truth, William Blake
Truth
In John 18:33–38, while being interrogated by Pilate, “Jesus answered, ‘For this I have been born, and for this I have come into the world, to testify to the truth. Everyone who is of the truth hears my voice.’ Pilate…
Posted in Church for Writers Tagged with: beauty, Jesus, Kierkegaard, love, philosophy, Pilate, Thomas Didymus, truth
Getting It
The common belief about knowledge, at least in our culture, is that to claim knowledge about something we should be able to backup the claim with logic, sensory observation, personal experience, or a solid reason to trust the provider of…
Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: B. Traven, beauty, Christ, John Keats, Kierkegaard, Kurt Vonnegut, pastors, politics, truth, William Butler Yeats
Looking for Loopholes
Someone encountered W.C. Fields on his deathbed reading a Bible. When the person asked if he had gotten religion, Fields replied, “I’m looking for a loophole.” Most of us prefer looking for loopholes to facing hard truths. Not Sören Kierkegaard.…
The Curse of the Clever
Let’s return to the question, does Sören Kierkegaard offer a cure for depression, which he called melancholy? Because Kierkegaard offers nothing easy or simple, the opposite may appear more likely. He would have us live by Christ’s standards, without recourse…
Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Christ, depression, freedom, Kierkegaard, philosophy, truth
Either/Or
In 1843, while contending with the melancholy that was a motive for the urgency and intensity of his work, Sören Kierkegaard wrote this journal entry: “The most important thing of all is that a man stands right toward God, does…
Posted in Soren Kierkegaard Tagged with: Christ, God, illusion, Kierkegaard, Scott Peck, The Road Less Traveled, truth
