The word “discipline” doesn’t create a great deal of joy when it is offered. Kynette and I have close friends in Kentucky who have a son named Jacob. A couple of years ago, Jacob was on a “I hate discipline” kick. “‘Discipline’ is a dirty word,” he would moan. His moaning would evoke my truthful [...]
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Disciples and Self-Discipline
Posted in Discipleship, Self-discipline, tagged Christian life, Discipleship, godliness, Self-discipline on October 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
Religion: an emotional crutch?
Posted in Discipleship, Life, tagged C. S. Lewis, Discipleship, Karl Marx, obedience, Richard Niebuhr, Sigmund Freud on July 9, 2008 | Leave a Comment »
With his sights focused upon Christianity, noted 19th-century revolutionary Karl Marx famously railed that “religion is the opiate for the masses.” Psychologist Sigmund Freud contemptuously opined, “Religion is an attempt to get control over the sensory world, in which we are placed, by means of the wish-world which we have developed inside us as a [...]
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