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 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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