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Teach Us To Pray

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  Credit to Kyle Tennant, formerly the pastor at Regeneration Church in Cortland, Ohio, for originating this message. Most of it is his work, but with some of my own observations mixed in wherever I use some form of I/my/I've/mine/etc. * A talk show host named Garrison Keillor once remarked of Christians, “They really believe in prayer, but would practically die if asked to pray out loud.” Relatable, right? We don’t talk about Bruno. Ever heard the song from Disney's Encanto ? The song is about this family that talks about everything, except a person named Bruno, who mysteriously disappeared. His disappearance is taboo. We don’t talk about Bruno, we don’t go looking for Bruno, but it’s perfectly fine to sing about not talking about Bruno. Because reasons. The movie has been out long enough I shouldn't need to care about spoiler alerts. So the short of it is, Bruno never actually left the house. How does this relate to prayer? Because sometimes we have a tendency t

What Is Your Passion? And Why Aren't You Living It?

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  I read an article a couple weeks ago. "7 Strange Questions to Help You Find Your Life Purpose". Quite fascinating, really. And they are questions I think not a lot of people think about much. I certainly didn't. But I've been mulling over them ever since. And tonight, I had a particular epiphany. See, one of the questions was "What is something about you today that would make your eight-year-old self cry?" The idea being, what is something you were passionate about when you were a child and believed you could do anything, but that dream got choked out by adulthood. Tough question. My younger self had more ambitions than could fit in a lifetime. Also he was a selfish prick. But how weird that it specifically asked EIGHT. I remember little of being eight, but there were some big things that happened. When I was eight, my first grandparent died. When I was eight, my youngest brother was born. And what I want to talk about right now is that when I was eight, m