(For part I of this series please click here.)
Last week, I addressed how personal spirituality cannot replace organized religion for Christians because Chri...
If you had told me last summer who I would be one year later, I would have laughed and called you a liar. Obviously, people change after going away to college. ...
When faith is final and hope is vital
salvation's in the making
Redemption's waiting for saints beside me
so steady and so friendly
Your healing touch...
I have always been depressed by the idea of being merely a "pretty good" person. Before I was a Christian, I identified myself only according to characteristics that I considered wholly good (and even noble) - the parts of me that appreciated things outside of myself that I thought were good, like nature or another person. That was the "real" me, but I had no way of reconciling this desire for goodness with poorer components in my character, such as selfishness.
