Some Reflections on Viral You Tube Video “Why I Hate Religion, But Love Jesus” I really like this video (you can watch it in the previous post below this one). By the time you read this the video will have clocked over the 15 million views mark. Jefferson Bethke created the video which challenges our thinking and [...]

RELIGION V’s JESUS

This video articulates quite well some things that I feel very strongly about. Many of the objections that I’ve heard raised against the Christian faith are really objections to religious moralism or issues of church culture or nominal Christianity – not the Gospel of Jesus. A critical part of understanding the Gospel from within our culture is to clarify the [...]

We All Worship, 24/7 The Bible portrays us as being designed to worship. It assumes that we are hard-wired that way. We worship the objects of our affections. We do this practically, in everyday life when we make choices that show our priorities. We choose to spend our limited time and resources on such-and-such, rather than on something [...]

  Here’s a collection of nauseating images of Jesus that have one thing in common – they are all guaranteed to give an impression of Jesus that is both inaccurate and repelling. Particularly for men, Stained Glass Jesus is a major turn off. Effeminate, weak, irrelevant, boring and unapproachably religious …. is this really the [...]