Loving God
“You shall love the Lord your God with all your heart.” If we are angry at God because of something that happened to us or because of something going on…
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We Need Faith.
To me, faith in God is a lot like marriage, which is faith in another person. It means a rock-solid commitment to giving God the benefit of the doubt, not…
Questions
I believe it is not only permissible but a religious obligation to question the existence of God if you are troubled by some of the things you were taught, to…
Not Yet
God’s gift to Abraham was the promise that his descendants would teach the world what it means to live in the presence of God. Abraham’s reciprocal gift to God was…
Bringing People Together
Belief exists inside a person. As such, it has the power and the tendency to separate a person from his neighbors who believe differently. But authentic religion connects people rather…
True Belief
To believe in God is not to affirm His existence. To believe in God means to trust God, to rely on God to be there for you when you are…
Community
It may well be the case that the word “religion” is related to the word “ligament,” from the Latin ligare, “to connect.” One might argue that the word refers to…
Authentic Religion
Religion is like love. The difference between religion as feeling or believing and authentic religion as how you live out your faith is like the difference between love as a…
What You Do
Every clergyman I know, myself included, has heard these words from a marginal congregant trying to justify his noninvolvement: “I may not be religious in the conventional sense, but I…
God of Forgiveness
Where do so many of us get that feeling that if you’re not the best, you’re a failure? The God I believe in, the God I pray to, the God…