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A woman at a well just outside of Bethlehem (1938)
We Americans don’t gather around the fire and hear grandpa tell us our story anymore and that makes us feel “free” to create our own. But with that freedom comes ignorance and confusion. We’ve forgotten our True story, and it’s my constant passion to call people to the fire to hear the way things really are.
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I can count on one hand the amount of times this has happened to me. I’m just sitting there minding my own business when suddenly I feel as if I’m watching myself, as if the rubber band of my imagination breaks and my consciousness is left spread out in space....And it’s in those rare moments that I glimpse the truth about my life, about my existence.
Read moreThe sun rises, the sun falls: waves roll in and out with the tide. Heat comes in Summer and cold in Winter, the wind chilling the earth. We know the patterns of life, and we even expect them to flow, but sometimes they don’t—sometimes they get stuck.
Read more2015 was the first year for AdamSetser.com and my push to publish something regularly. I’ve had a hard time figuring out what writing means and how I am to go about doing it, and that has led me into some really dark places. But before we get there, let’s recap.
Read moreSome of my most thoughtful reflections from 2015 on life and the human condition in this Fallen World in a broken set of mental pictures.
Read moreThe older I get, the more consumed I become with this person, Jesus. The smarter I get, the more confused and awestruck I become with the incarnation. So let me share a few things in answer to the most important question we can ask: Who is Jesus?
Read moreWhen I was young I used to pray for God to rescue me from the boredom of doing my devotions. All those Thees and Thous and henceforths (I grew up on the KJV) was like pouring water on the tiny flame of my faith. So I lowered my shouldered and repeated the words fake it ‘till you make it, fake it ‘till you make it.
Read moreBeing an American is a lot like being stranded on an island, but very few of us realize it. We've come to see the island as our home, and we don't remember the way things used to be...
Read moreSocial media is phenomenal. It connects us with our best friends about all the things we find important. It’s like a group forum where we share our lives together...Only, in reality, it's not all that phenomenal.
Read moreI know that airplanes make men fly—I guess I've always known that—but I'm just now realizing how significant that is....
Read moreProbably the most depressing thing about life is that no matter how hard you work, you'll never do enough....
Read moreBack in April, the Guardian ran a piece by Giles Fraser entitled "Christianity, when properly understood, is a religion of losers." This is my response.
Read moreBildad begins his response within the second (modernistic) round of debate, appealing, as always, to nature for his reason.
Read moreWe Americans have come to think the Gospel is all about us and our personal relationships with God, but it isn't. It's something much more--more big, more powerful, and so much more glorious.
Read moreWe often mistake passivity for humility and passion for arrogance, and since our culture idolizes relativism, our only option is to back down. Or is it?
Read moreAs I was reading through 2 Peter, this verse jumped out and mugged me. Because who knew the Bible read like The Lord of the Rings? And, more specifically, who knew a fisherman could write like this?
Read moreThe will of God connects His omnipotence to the created world in His providence, but it's no simple thing.
Read moreWe often just want a tidy answer/justification for the existence of evil, but it's just not that simple. I think answers can be found, but maybe not as you'd expect.
Read more"What has Jerusalem to do with Athens, the Church with the Academy, the Christian with the heretic?" Tertullian asked this question in c. 200 AD, and it still plagues us, even today.
Read moreBeing a human is a really weird thing. But I don’t think we get that....
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