Increasing Faith

I want to extend a loving welcome to the Atheists (they claim it, not I.  I say this because of the site you are coming from.) who have started reading my blog in recent days.  If some of you are in fact agnostic, I welcome you as well.  I appreciate the feedback and your honesty.  My only request is that we keep it on an intellectual level and not degrade it to name calling or character judging.  This does nothing to further the conversation and only feeds negative stereotypes.  Besides that, I doubt any of you actually know me, so you are in no place to judge my character.

I look forward to answering some of your concerns shortly.  I will explain the delay below.  I also plan on posting this on the blog you are all coming from to ensure you get a chance to see it.

An update for everyone:

The reason I am not addressing the comments or even posting a deep post for the past two weeks is preparation for the Church Planting assessment which is next Thursday.  Half of the work was due yesterday, and the rest when we show up.  Hopefully I can get it finished this weekend, but we shall see.  Please keep my wife and I in your prayers as we walk down this road.

By next Friday, I should be able to dedicate more time here to my writing.

One other word of caution to those readers who claim the name of Christ- There are those who claim Christ and angrily condemn and attack others when they are discussing things that seem to be attacking their belief system.  Please do not fall into this trap.  This is not how Christ would respond, and neither should we.  People who respond this way give all Christians a bad name.  God loves those who have different opinions than us, and so should we regardless of how they respond to us.

That being said, any comment that is contrary to me and my post will be allowed to stay unless it is does not adhere to the standards of a polite society.   You know what I am talking about.  Any comment by a Christian that starts attacking those that do not agree with us will be deleted as soon as I can get to it.

Let’s try to keep all discussions intellectual and not emotional.

If you are not aware of what I am referring to, you can visit it here.