Facebook Page

A decade after everyone else figured this out, I finally noticed many people prefer social media to RSS feeds or email subscriptions, so I've created a Facebook page where I will post what I've written here. If you have a Facebook account, this would make it easy to share any posts you liked.

Please take a look, follow it if you're interested, and let me know if you have any thoughts about how I could set it up better.

You can find the page at facebook.com/HomewardBoundBlog/.

Ask Audaciously

“Ask and it will be given to you; seek and you will find; knock and the door will be opened to you” (Matt 7:7).

Do you trust God? How can we say we trust him to save us from our sins if we don’t trust everything else he says? But when he says, “Ask and it will be given to you,” that’s so hard to believe.

Is it hard to believe he’s able to give us what we ask for? Surely not. If he can create a universe, surely he can meet our little needs. So do we doubt his willingness? I think so. We have to trust that our heavenly Father wants to give us good things.

Paul said, “He who did not spare his own Son, but gave him up for us all—how will he not also, along with him, graciously give us all things?” (Rom 8:32), so we should be willing to act on what Jesus said. How do we do that?

God is Metal

The problem of evil asks why the world is like it is if God is good. There are two common approaches to it. The more common one rests mostly on emotion. There is a less common version, though, that starts with Christian theology and asks hard questions. Is it any more convincing?

What Does My Dog Think I Do All Day?

My dog lives to play. She likes tug of war and fetch — though she has yet to realize if she gives you the ball back, you can throw it again. Her very favorite thing is her frisbee.

She’s also fond of treats. Or people food. Any people food.

First thing in the morning, she wants to play. But I’ve got to work. She stares at me, wondering why we’re not playing. She can’t be in the room with me, because she’d be harassing me, trying to get me to play. I can’t get her to understand that toys and treats require money and I have to do things to get that money.

Don't Judge Self-Righteously

“Do not judge, or you too will be judged. For in the same way you judge others, you will be judged, and with the measure you use, it will be measured to you” (Matt 7:1-2). 

Meet this era’s favorite Bible verse. Of course, they misunderstand and misuse it.

“Do not judge” is the only command in the Bible they believe to be absolute. Do not judge, no ifs ands or buts. Jesus does say that, but he says it in context, and we have to consider everything he says on the matter.