http://www.exicarus.com living Ephesians 2:1-4 in Lexington KY Mon, 14 Apr 2008 15:28:10 +0000 http://backend.userland.com/rss092 en I thought I would share with everyone a hymn that I wrote about a year ago. I wrote it during a family studies class while I was thinking about how many modern worship songs have left meaningful words in favor of a catchy repeatable chorus. I return to ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/09/18/hymn/ Starting Sunday night at 10 PM, in the UK free speech area, we began with "in the beginning." UCF will be continuing from there, non-stop, until we reach the "amen" in Revelation. We expect that this will take about three days and we will be able to end ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/27/bible-reading/ As many of you know, this is not the only site that I am in charge of running. I have been a bit sluggish on posting to this site over the past week, because I have been putting most of my time into the UCF site. Several people have written ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/22/ucf-site/ Things are once again starting up here on UK's campus. Fall semester is always fun, and I am looking forward to the classes that I am taking. It is interesting to see thousands of freshmen pouring in to campus trying to figure out what is "cool" in their new environment. ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/16/back-to-campus/ I picked up the Practice of the Presence of God, by Brother Lawrence, yesterday after a few months break. It is a rather inspiring book and I recommend it to anyone. I like it because it is short and can be finished in an afternoon. I also like it because ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/15/the-practice-of-the-presence-of-god/ I realize that I can often give a rather unbalanced view of God on this site. I often portray the holiness of God and his expectations of us much more than I talk about his grace and mercy. This is largely reactionary. What I see in the culture around me ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/14/forgiveness/ Judgment is a common theme in the Bible, but one that we are hesitant to talk about today. When judgment is brought up in conversation people end up feeling awkward. They generally feel, well... judged. The fact is that we will all be judged one day by a perfect Judge. ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/13/judgment/ Whenever we talk about sin we also need to talk about righteousness. It doesn't help someone very much when you tell them what they shouldn't do if you don't give them an alternative course of action. Yesterday, I looked at the nature of sin a bit. To summarize, sin is ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/10/righteousness/ The bible says that the Holy Spirit is in the world now convicting people of sin, righteousness and judgment. Guilt is undeniable. I know a lot of people who try to fight it or create complex systems so that they can deal with it. However, I don't know anyone who ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/09/sin/ I thought it would be a good idea to follow up the last post about fatherhood by talking about the story of the prodigal son. I like this story because Jesus uses it to show a lot of things about fatherhood all at once. First he uses the first son ... http://www.exicarus.com/2007/08/08/the-prodigal-son/