Submission to Biblical morality without GOD will never feel right

Is happiness and fulfilment through submitting to a Godly lifestyle without GOD, ever possible?

Is asking a non-GOD-centred society to live within the Biblical framework of relationships and morals with the exclusion of GOD, and promising happiness and fulfilment actually a lie? Surely living a GOD glorifying design for life needs GOD at it’s centre… read more…

Tue, 06 Apr 2010 20:55:26 +0100

The infinite eternality of pleasure

Can pleasure only exist if memory persists?

Someone much older and wiser once said that we always do and choose that which brings us the greatest pleasure; even suicide.

But what is pleasure and why are we drawn to it, what is it about pleasure that causes us to spend all our time and energy in pursuit of it? Pleasure such that we would give up our lives for it… read more…

Wed, 31 Mar 2010 23:45:33 +0100

Enneatypology and the glory of God in the face of Christ

Where personality and grace meet.

Are our personalities fixed, or do they change? If who we are is locked up in our personal view of ourselves and the world around us, what about the obvious or not so obvious imperfections? The Enneagram may very well help in the identification, but our identity is found in someone infinitely perfect and outside of ourselves… read more…

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 10:00:00 +0000

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    Dox*ol"o*gy (?), n.; pl. Doxologies (#). [LL. doxologia, Gr. , fr. praising, giving glory; opinion, estimation, glory, praise (from to think, imagine) + to speak: cf. F. doxologie. See Dogma, and Legend.]

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