http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 23 Oct 2008 11:25:00 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I fly to speak in Cincinnati today and I’m worried.  It’s been a rough spiritual year since last October.  I find myself asking a lot of questions about a lot of issues and wonder if I have anything of any value ready to say.  Since I’ve been to Cincy more ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=11 What exactly is the gospel anyway? I asked the following question to my wise spiritual friends recently--Tell me what are your top answers/reasons you give a non-Christian as to WHY they should be a Christian.  Let's go ahead, by the way, and assume you'll already tell me/them about the heaven/hell thing, ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=10 So, as we saw in the last posting, the question of even trying to find a candidate who matches my beliefs, particularly those for a Christian (though I would imagine the same thoughts come out for a Hindu, a Jew, a Muslim or an Atheist), is a very difficult issue. ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=9 Recently, several of us in Numinous were debating whether to vote or not, feeling a high degree of frustration in the process.  I think that sense of disgust or despair is one shared by many, particularly among those in the 45-under crowd of the GenX and Millennial Generations. Included in the ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=8 A thought occurred to me today as I was trying to help my home schooling first grade daughter.  I was attempting to help her gain the understanding of some of the nuances of our education (how exactly do you explain what an “apostrophe” does or what exactly is an odd ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=7 I love reading the English Christian writer, Oswald Chambers. He was a missionary and speaker back in the of World War I. During the war, he served as a Chaplain for the British army and was serving in Cairo, Egypt when he passed away in 1917. His wife took all ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=6             I heard a pastor say that he believed that 9/11 was a “historical shift.”  While I am not sure, as a historian, that I completely agreed with him, his point was well placed.  We are in a new time.  It’s a time that demands excellence in ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=5 Well, if you ever doubted that we had entered a strange new world a few years back, you don’t any more. In this monthly column, I usually try to take a look at popular culture with a Christian viewpoint, but my mind is, like everyone else’s, trapped by the ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=4 It doesn’t get any more real, at least not on TV, where 7 young adults live together with their every move shown to the world, a real life Truman Show. What is the big deal? Why are we fascinated with watching the real lives of these people? Are the ... http://numinous247.collegiateministry.com/blog/?p=3