The usefulness of doctrine

Perhaps doctrine is a necessary evil to give us a rational foundation on which to rest our hearts. It is our hearts, after all, that turn towards God or away from him. In other words, if my mind is somewhat at rest in some sort of incomplete projection of who I think God is, it’s […]

The uselessness of doctrine

Perhaps I’m just a rebellious jerk, but I don’t like being told what to do, what to think, or what to believe. Details of denominational distinction disgust me. My gut tells me a simple truth, and I find the heaping upon of doctrine irrelevant to my relationship with God. I seem to have three types […]

FEAR

Fear is not real; it’s a lens through which you can come to see the world. Events are real, but not when they are imagined. Most imagined events never come to be; many real events were never imagined. Fear is nothing more than a mental projection of the future that sees the glass as half-empty. […]