No apology for theology!

I don't blog...

"Wait a minute," you're thinking, "you just blogged now."

I know, I know, but really, I don't want to blog.  In other words, this isn't my idea of a good time.  You can tell if you're a writer.  If so, this saying would ring true, "I think with my pen."  However, the words swirling in this brain of mine find themselves bottlenecked awaiting dictation by my slow mistyping fingers.  So it's more like torture at times.  I love the dynamics of give and take, speaking and listening.  Some have said, the closest thing for a man to give birth is writing a book, but I say it can even be a blog.  Being too dramatic, you think?  Possibly.  But, I really see this as an opportunity to put out what is going on in my brain.  Seminary is constantly pumping me with new ideas, and some of them need to be put down on paper (Retention isn't my strong suit either).  Besides, this might be interesting and engaging for you to begin to process as well.  So, my hope is that you will permit me to unload my weekly musings for you to then pick up and investigate for yourself.  Of course, not everyone will be interested in superlapsarianism, dynamic omniscience, meta-narratives, adumbrations, speech act theory, economic trinitarianism, passe no pecarre, but everyone I'm sure everyone if they are honest want to know:

What is my purpose in life?
How we know the Bible/Christianity is true?
How can we make sense of it, it's so complicated?
How much of the Law do I need to follow today?
How do I grow/stop sin in our life?
How I know I'm saved?
If men and women are equal, why should women submit?
Why doesn't God speak to me?
Does the presence of evil refute God's strength or his love?
What should the church think about homosexuality?
Trini-what? Trin-who? (borrowed from Jay-Z, ha)
How do I forgive?
What is theology and why is it important?
James says works, Paul says faith - who's right?
Why should I go to church?
Why are there so many denominations?

Every Christ follower at heart should be a theologian.  That is, you are a theologian if you simply engage in the study and thought about God and how he relates to us.  I hope life has not relegated God to last place, quarantined him to Sunday, or reduced him to a kind of cosmic ATM or some kind of seasoning to spice life up.  He is deserving of so much more, He is deserving of our all.  Let us press into the eternal God and see how knowing him better breathes new life into our soul!