Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength – Part 4

Wednesday, June 3rd, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

We have finally arrived at the last part of this particular series. We've talked about how to love God with all our hearts. We've talked bout loving Him with all our soul. Last week, we went over how to love Him with our minds. Today, we get to what is perhaps the most challenging one for me to describe.

Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength – Part 3

Thursday, May 28th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | 34 Comments »

Man, this holiday week has really thrown me off. Here it is, Thursday, and I'm just finally getting going on writing this next part of what originally was supposed to be a single-shot post. Though, when one takes into consideration my propensity for being verbose, this should not be a surprise. Over the last couple weeks, we've been taking a look at the various ways or methods or perspectives in which we love the Lord our ...

Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength – Part 2

Tuesday, May 19th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

Last week, I began to break down these concepts from Luke 10:27 and I got as far as talking about what it would me (to me, anyway) to love the Lord our God with all your heart. But that was only one of four ways Jesus told us we should love Him. So, let's continue where we left off and see if we can wrap this up. The next way we can love God is with ...

Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength

Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

For about seven months now, I've been working on my own blog in addition to writing for the Jesus Site. The title of my blog is "Heart, Soul, Mind & Strength." This blog is focused on what Christ referred to as "the greatest commandment" in response to a question from the Pharisees. This reference can be found at Luke 10:27. The focus of that blog is the idea of these four concepts. Of course, it all ...

What’s It Take for a Revival?

Tuesday, April 28th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

Recently, I was listening to some teaching by Chuck Smith on the work of the Holy Spirit. The teaching was excellent with lots of great stuff. But I wanted to specifically focus on something he pointed out within the first few moments of the audio. I don't recall the name of the work he was quoting and, sitting here at the computer, I don't have the audio with me to re-listen to it (though I may ...

Transitions and Steadfastness – Part IV

Wednesday, April 8th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Evangelism | 2 Comments »

As a final entry in our list of scenarios for transitioning (or not) between Christianity and atheism, we'll take a look at the idea of atheists becoming Christians. This type of thing always brings joy to the church community for many reasons. One, perhaps somewhat "worldly," reason is that it helps us to validate what we already believe to be true. Somehow, it seldom works the other way around, though. There are, as is usually the ...

Transitions and Steadfastness – Part III

Wednesday, April 1st, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Evangelism | Comments Off

Today, we get further into looking at the four different scenarios relating to transitioning or remaining Christian or atheist. Once again, these same four scenarios could easily be argued by other faiths, but Christianity is being treated here. Now, we're going to get into some of the more touchy areas that might, perhaps, have a bit more controversy or, at least, be a little more complicated and hopefully thought provoking. First, in order to make sure we're ...

Transistions and Steadfastness

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living, Evangelism | Comments Off

It seems almost humorous sometimes. Other times, it's mind-boggling. And still other times, one just isn't quite sure what to think. For centuries, millenia even, the debate has raged on. Does God exist or not? In some ways, there are times it reminds me of political campaigns. We saw in the last campaign, prominent Democrats pledging their support to the Republican candidate and vice versa. I see the same thing with Theists vs. Atheists. Some atheists ...

Western Christians Abandoning Faith in Record Numbers

Wednesday, March 18th, 2009 by Ty Wallace posted in Christian Living | 2 Comments »

"We are on the verge – within 10 years – of a major collapse of evangelical Christianity. This breakdown will follow the deterioration of the mainline Protestant world and it will fundamentally alter the religious and cultural environment in the West." This bold statement comes from a recent article at The Christian Science Monitor entitled, "The Coming Evangelical Collapse." Sound outrageous? I'm not too sure about that.

Reasonable Faith

Tuesday, March 3rd, 2009 by Dan Carrington posted in Christian Living | Comments Off

For so many Christians today, faith is simply a matter of just that....faith. In many cases, this faith is the result of being nurtured in an environment that leaves little other option other than to follow in one's parents footsteps. One generation believes in and accepts Jesus Christ because their parents raised them in the church and that is all they have ever known. While, on the one hand, I commend raising ones children in a ...