Daniel Camomile
Christian Fiction Training Faith
Read: John 8:31-38 When I was doing campus ministry at the University of Texas, I remember routinely passing by the campus clocktower, on which was inscribed, “YE SHALL KNOW THE TRUTH AND THE TRUTH SHALL MAKE YOU FREE”. Of course, many of the students I met with didn’t know this was from the bible, …
Read: John 8:12-30 In the Marvel movie, “Doctor Strange”, Dr. Steven Strange journeys to Tibet after a near-fatal car accident to seek healing from a famed mystic known as the, “Ancient One”. When Steven meets the Ancient One, he quickly loses his patience. He’s in a hurry, she’s calm and at ease; he’s angry …
Read: John 8:1-11 The character of Javert in “Les Miserables” is a cold and pitiless police inspector, bent on bringing the fugitive Jean Valjean to justice. If you’re not familiar with the story, Javert is not what you would typically call a “corrupt cop”. He stringently adheres to the letter of the law. Caught …
The concept of the Kingdom of God involves, in a real sense, the total message of the Bible. Not only does it loom large in the teachings of Jesus; it is to be found, in one form or another, through the length and breadth of the Bible….from Abraham, who set out to seek “the city …
So far in this book our task has been to explore the thought-patterns and cultural assumptions that oppose a faithful Christian understanding in the modern west. In part one, we addressed modern Christianity’s soft endorsement of secular culture, our discontentment with contemporary church, and how this has left us like the rest of modern culture …
“almost the same moment he began to pray in this truer fashion, the doubt rushed up in him like a torrent-spring from the fountains of the great deep—Was there—could there be a God at all? a real being who might actually hear his prayer? In this crowd of houses and shops and churches, amidst buying …
