A petite peek at my theology

A short selection of blurbs I stick on Facebook, freshly expressed, occasionally

A petite peek at my theology:
Human bodies are like one-person tents. Of satisfying, practical and robust construction yet impermanent. Matched to earth but short-lived. Much of life makes us groan, expecting a promised new covering when we graduate from mortality to life beyond for which God’s Spirit is our present warranty.

A petite peek at my theology:
When a soul is too cramped for God to enter, hoarded but useless contents must be removed. Into the resultant capacity God will come to stay and will keep the soul uncluttered and spotless. More satisfied and positioned for a Kingdom.

A petite peek at my theology:
God is great. Must be. Pre-existed all we know. Needed no one. Chose to create humanity to reflect the Creator. Humanity tarnished. Creator came here to restore that reflection. Human efforts to associate Creator with social, political, and economic interests and personalities cheapen Creator’s greatness.

A petite peek into my theology:
The grand designer says, “I never told you that the measure of your worth is directly equivalent to the measure of your stuff. In fact I denounce envy as your most persistent 21st century economic driver. What you should have heard from me is that you can gain a whole world full of toys but still not be rich enough to protect your soul.”

A Petite Peek Into My Theology
It’s reasonable to conclude that since God forgives human sins, not holding on to resentments but reconciling with humans for the purpose of relationship, that the forgiven ones can similarly reject resentment in favour of reconciled human relationships.

A petite peek into my theology:
The world has never been more connected than it is now when you are alive. Ironically despite that access to connection, loneliness is pandemic. Yet we were created for relationship with the Maker and with those He made. Authentic connectedness to one another is contingent upon our connectedness with God.

A Petite Peek into My Theology:
God is the Creator, not us; we can’t shape God to be Liberal or Conservative, Republican or Democrat; and we can’t tint God white, brown, carmine or black. We can’t make him passionate about what we love or make him angry about what angers us.

A petite peek into my theology:
I know I am loved and therefore I can risk the uncertainty of loving others, you in fact, for the One who loves me most, knows me best, and I ain’t perfect. That’s emancipating and emboldening, and together we can make this work.

A petite peek into my theology:
Faith and redemption are themes in W.P. Kinsella’s novel ‘Shoeless Joe.’ Kinsella’s protagonist is Ray, the corn farmer who heard Joe’s voice telling him to build a ball diamond on his Iowa farm and ‘they’ will come. With faith Ray complied and each evening from his cornfield, came ballplayers from the disgraced 1919 Chicago White Sox, dubbed the Black Sox because seven teammates took bribes to throw the 1991 World Series to the Cincinnati Reds. Ray’s estranged and deceased father John was one of the players on the field. In an emotional redemptive reunion father and son threw the ball to one another before John faded into the corn. Kinsella writes fiction, entertaining make-believe that I endorse because I enjoy the genre. In my non-fiction real life world, faith and redemption are priority themes about which I insist upon truth that I believe embraces faith in Someone whose self-sacrifice redeemed me for life with him.