I’ve been having this debate with myself for a while about skeptics. If you spend any time at all reading and listening to skeptics, you’ve probably asked yourself the same question I keep asking myself. What makes them so desperate and earnest and, I guess, alive?
Read moreThe Biblical Imagination: Turning Trees into Theological Reminders
There’s this big, old oak tree on the outside of the long corner of North Oak Street Extension that has a big scar on it from where this guy my dad went to high school with crashed his car into it over 30 years ago.
Read moreRedemption: Finding True Healing from Sin
Our culture is on a rampage to promote sin and destroy goodness—the great irony is it doesn't realize it's hacking off the very branch its ladder is leaning on.
Read moreThis is Our Story: An Overview of Redemptive History
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.
Read moreWhat Does it Mean to be Alive?
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 Sullenness of The In-Between
The 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 moreReviewing 2015 for AdamSetser.com and Exploring My Calling to Write
2015 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 moreDocumenting 2015 in Mental Pictures
Some of my most thoughtful reflections from 2015 on life and the human condition in this Fallen World in a broken set of mental pictures.
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