I remember the day I stopped believing in God. My agnosticism had been developing for some time but birthed in the fall semester of 2000. I was a visiting student at Oxford and had developed a capacity for researching and explaining various philosophical arguments for God’s existence… and for bashing them all. I won’t tell [...]
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Ignorant Clay
Posted in Bible in a Year 2011-2012, Doubt, Isaiah, tagged certainty, doubt, faith, God, life, religion, spirituality on April 10, 2012 | 2 Comments »
Day 193: Psalms 146-150
Posted in Bible in a Year 2011-2012, Doubt, Psalms, tagged faith, God, life, movies, praise, religion, spirituality on March 11, 2012 | 1 Comment »
My wife and I like movies that have happy endings. Too many stories in real life have sad endings. When we watch a movie, we want to feel good when the credits roll. The book of Psalms expresses an array of human emotions: love, loneliness, delight, despair, etc; and it ends in praise. Psalms 146-150 [...]
Day 178: Psalms 74-77
Posted in Bible in a Year 2011-2012, Doubt, Psalms, Spiritual Disciplines, tagged doubt, faith, God, life, religion, silence, spirituality on February 25, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
A few years ago I took a group of college students to a large retreat where one of my former professors was a featured speaker. He told of a recent time in his life when he had felt like not preaching anymore because he hadn’t been hearing any message from God. Psalm 77 knows the [...]
Day 168: Psalms 21-25
Posted in Bible in a Year 2011-2012, Doubt, Psalms, tagged abandonment, faith, life, spirituality, the father turns his face away on February 15, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
God does not abandon us. Even if we turn away, the Holy Presence does not forsake us. Psalm 22 begins in a painful feeling that God has abandoned the writer: My God, my God, why have you forsaken me? Why are you so far from saving me, so far from my cries of anguish? My [...]
Day 166: Psalms 9-16
Posted in Bible in a Year 2011-2012, Doubt, Psalms, tagged faith, God, life, spirituality on February 13, 2012 | Leave a Comment »
The life of faith isn’t always carefree happiness. Sometimes it’s painful loneliness, as we see in Psalm 13: How long, LORD? Will you forget me forever? How long will you hide your face from me? I’m grateful that the Bible confirms my experiences of questioning God. I thank the ancient people of faith who preserved [...]
