http://www.fishingtheabyss.com Living close enough to the edge to matter... Mon, 19 Sep 2011 04:01:13 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en [youtube]KcIYok_NXEA[/youtube] R.I.P. Rich Mullins http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/870 In the past day or so, I've had a friend who sent me a couple of links to articles on Cracked.com (Warning: NSFW language) with some interesting observations. His first was this one, based on this Cracked article: I was reading an article about how good news no one talks ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/866 One of the several views of pareschatology Rob Bell puts forth in Love Wins is that of Universal Reconciliation (which I have spent buckets of digital ink arguing against, when it was presented as a certainty, so I don't want to re-hash those arguments). Even though he doesn't ultimately ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/851 While I realize I may be late to the party, I tend to get lots of questions from friends and family when it comes to issues surrounding theology and/or Rob Bell. I was apparently in "wave two" of Amazon's shipments of Bell's newest book, Love Wins, so I just ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/842 So, with the recent furor over Love Wins, and with varying degrees of hand-wringing or gnashing of teeth over the certainty in hell's manifestation, it probably makes some sense to outline what the Bible actually says about hell, some of the different views of hell, and why loosely holding your ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/844 Sounds like breakfast, no? A new friend of mine from work, Len, connected with me in a rather roundabout way last week. As we are of like minds on both our faith and our passion for the Hebrew roots of our faith, I am sure we will have many long ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/837 Sixty-eight years ago today, on Feb 22, 1943, three Christian students in Munich, Germany, were executed for their peaceful resistance to the Nazi German government. Sophie Scholl, her brother Hans, and their friend Christoph Probst (who had a wife and children) were members of the White Rose resistance ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/840 Comfort, comfort my people, says your God. Speak tenderly to Jerusalem, and proclaim to her that her hard service has been completed, that her sin has been paid for, that she has received from the LORD’s hand double for all her sins. In this time of remembrance and recognition of the coming of our Messiah, one of the ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/834 I recently read a series of depressing studies about marriage & relationships in modern society - where the average age of marriage creeps ever higher (which, ultimately, is not a good thing), the prevalence of broken relationships has become the new norm, and instant gratification has come to trump the ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/828 Rich Mullins, in weekend retreats he & Beaker ran, many years ago, used to quote C.S. Lewis' definition of love: "Love is desiring the best for someone else, and being willing to do something about it." For the life of me, my Google-fu is weak, and I cannot find the original source ... http://www.fishingtheabyss.com/archives/825