tina on May 29th, 2008

Memes give me something to blog about, so that’s cool. My friend Jim at Lord I Believe, Help My Unbelief tagged me with this one about favorite books of the Bible. It was started by another friend of mine, Brother Maynard at Subversive Influence.
I don’t think I have a favorite entire book in the Bible. [...]

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tina on May 25th, 2008

Jesus tells us over and over not to be afraid.
Fear of the unknown can drive us to do many things to feel safe, not the least of which is to surround ourselves with unnecessary structure and rules and people to tell us the right things to do so that we never need make a mistake. [...]

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tina on April 4th, 2008

Welcome to a peek inside the mind of Tina.
I was thinking about God-breathed last night and I realized that while Scripture is God-breathed, so is man. Totally cool. Here’s a Scripture reference for you: Genesis 2:7. God breathed into Adam’s nostrils. Adam is God-breathed. Scripture is God-breathed. Many questions born of this:
What is Scripture? ……………………………………….
What [...]

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tina on April 3rd, 2008

My good friend submitted a comment on my post entitled “God.” I thought he raised some good questions, so I decided to make my reply a post where everyone could see it — perhaps there are others with similar thoughts and questions about my post and my intentions.

Tina, are you trying to engage [...]

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tina on April 3rd, 2008

I shouldn’t be writing on my blog today, I have a lot to do. But I just wanted to share about simple living and how counter-cultural that is. Jesus just wanted us to live this day and not worry about tomorrow. A book I recently read, the one with the provocative title that you would [...]

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God

tina on April 2nd, 2008

The Bible isn’t God. Communion isn’t God. Church isn’t God. I am not God.
The Bible is not divine. Communion is not divine. Church is not divine. I am not divine.
The Bible is not the final authority. Communion is not the final authority. Church is not the final authority. I am not the final authority.
God is [...]

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tina on March 27th, 2008

I’ve been thinking about the idea that talks, or sermons, or other kinds of verbal instruction or encouragement, need to be peppered with actual Scripture references, as in the book, chapter, and verse numbers. I don’t agree with this idea. I think sometimes people go crazy inserting these references until all I’m hearing is a [...]

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