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FaithRethink: Moving beyond childhood Christianity

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 10 August, 2021 | 8

Today’s blog post is my third in a new series on my evolving Christian faith. If you haven’t yet had the opportunity to read the first two posts introducing the series, I recommend first reading FaithRethink: A new series on an evolving Christian faith followed up by FaithRethink: Are you the same person you used to be?  Read more

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FaithRethink: Are you the same person you used to be?

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Bible, Evolving faith, Following Jesus, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey | 2 comments | 30 July, 2021 | 3

Are you the same person? Grab a pad of paper and pen so that you can write things down, or get out an electronic device so that you can type out your responses instead. We’re going to take some time to compare and contrast our past selves to who we are now. In order toRead more

Crowd of people. Time to stop and think.

FaithRethink: A new series on an evolving Christian faith

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Christian hope, Following Jesus, God in the questions, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 28 July, 2021 | 3

You remain a Christian. You’ve just changed. Perhaps your framework for understanding the Christian faith has changed. Perhaps your understanding and interpretations of various Bible topics and passages have changed. Perhaps some of your spiritual habits have changed. I too have changed. My understanding of my faith in Jesus has changed. To be clear, IRead more

A Desert in Israel

The Secret Message of Jesus: A Book Review

By Peter Watts | Asking questions, Authentic Christianity, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, Jesus, Learning and growing, New humanity, Power & authority, Sacrifice, Servant project, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 23 April, 2021 | 8

The Secret What if Jesus and his message are far better than we currently realize? And what if so much of what gets passed on as the truth about Jesus and his message is actually a watered down version of it (at best) or a complete perversion of it (at worst)? And what if oneRead more

A prayer for my country

By Peter Watts | American history, Authentic Christianity, Following Jesus, God in the face of Jesus, New humanity, Power & authority, Religious tolerance, Sacrifice, Servant project, Stories | 0 comment | 18 January, 2021 | 6

In light of the violent riot at the US Capital on January 6, 2021 and those who lost their lives, I offer this prayer.   Pray with me: God of creation, Our nation is in crisis. We are more polarized than ever. Neighbor is suspicious of neighbor. Hatred, aggression and violence have escalated. Even thoseRead more

Happy New Year! A look back at 2020

By Peter Watts | American history, Sacrifice, Stories | 0 comment | 1 January, 2021 | 2

Hello and Happy New Year! I hope you and your family are having a restful holiday season and New Year’s Day! A lot of us had to change our usual norms this year due to public health guidelines and restrictions, but we made the adjustments and found out that it’s possible to still have aRead more

When suffering turns to hope (Part 1)

By Peter Watts | God in the questions, Risk theology, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 31 March, 2020 | 3

Loss of vision One of the greatest challenges of suffering in our world is not just the existence of suffering but in how to deal with it. So many of our attempts at avoiding or eliminating personal suffering is not simply because of the pain involved but the crippling ability of suffering to wipe outRead more

Stories we tell ourselves

By Peter Watts | Stories | 0 comment | 27 August, 2019 | 2

Stories are incredibly important to us. As children, most of us learned the word “story” and we often attached that word to anything we read or heard that was fictional in nature. But later in life, the word story took on new meaning. Stories became ways or modes of talking  about experiences we had thatRead more

Moving toward authentic Christianity

By Peter Watts | Authentic Christianity, Learning and growing, Spiritual journey | 0 comment | 2 June, 2019 | 4

It’s been said that “the destination is not as important as the journey.” The spiritual path of following Jesus is also better understood as a journey rather than a destination. It’s a process of learning and growing, not about arriving somewhere and having it all figured out suddenly. Having and developing relationships, which is deeplyRead more

The stories we tell ourselves

By Peter Watts | Stories | 0 comment | 12 May, 2019 | 2

Stories are incredibly important to us. As children most of us learned the word “story,” and we often attached that word to any and all content we read or heard that was fictional in nature. But later in life, the word “stories” took on new meaning. Stories became ways or modes of talking about anRead more

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