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Let me start this post off by saying that I am not a heroin addict. Actually, I have no experience with this drug. I can relate to heroin addicts however. As a matter of fact, I can relate with addicts of all kinds because I am a recovering addict myself. I am going to go […]
May 20, 2011
A couple of months ago, I wrote a book review of a very popular book called ‘Radical’ by David Platt. This book has been causing quite a stir in some circles of the evangelical world. Out of all the articles that I have written, this book review has been the most widely read article by […]
May 12, 2011
It has been said that the most bloody & defining conflict that America has ever faced was the U.S. Civil War fought from 1861-1865. I had no idea how true that was until recently. I have just finished watching a powerful nine part documentary put together by Ken burns about the American Civil War that […]
April 20, 2011
Next month my one and only child will turn 18! Yeah, that’s right, I said 18. Can you believe it? One of my favorite things to do is get reactions from people when I tell them this. When I take my daughter out for coffee or out to a restaurant, I have to prepare myself […]
March 23, 2011
After dialoging with a good friend of mine on our blog site last week about the church, it became apparent that there was a misunderstanding about what I was advocating for. While he rightly assumed that I believe the institutional church system is a destructive system which causes many problems, he went on to assume […]
June 27, 2011
I am happy to inform you that because of the increasing volume of readers to this blog, the illuminate blog has ‘graduated’ to the next level! Without getting into too much technical detail, we upgraded the illuminate blog to a ‘standard’ theme that is better suited for professional blogging. This new theme allows the blog […]
June 21, 2011
None of us live in a vacuum. This might sound silly to say, but the world did not begin when we were born. Every context that we live in today has a history behind it that directly affects us. I’m talking about things like our nation’s history, and yes, even our context and understanding of […]
May 13, 2011
Jesus makes many promises to those who are a part of His household. One of those promises is conflict. According to Jesus, most of this conflict will come from the ‘inside’, not the ‘outside’ as we might imagine. I recently posted an article about the U.S. Civil War, and the similarities that conflict had with […]
April 11, 2011
I am a firm believer that there is nothing that we have that we have not received. I am also a firm believer that what we have received should be shared for the building up of the house of God. We do not live as islands unto ourselves. In January of this past year (2011), […]
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