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We did a children’s book!

It’s awesome. :) High-quality hardcover and available on Amazon.
</p> <p>FAIR WARNING. This is a high-priced book. For that reason alone it won’t appeal to many. But, for the few that don’t put a price on this type of treasure, it will be in that case priceless. :)</p> <p><em>Journey with Rex as he travels to different worlds, and meets characters to help him understand love, belonging, friendship, and ultimately help him find his purpose and his way home.</em></p> <div style="text-align: left; width: 450px;" data-bindattr-66="66"><object class="myWidget" data="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" width="450" height="300" data-bindattr-67="67"><param name="allowFullScreen" value="true" /><param name="wmode" value="transparent" /><param name="allowScriptAccess" value="always" /><param name="movie" value="http://www.blurb.com/assets/embed.swf" data-bindattr-68="68" /><param name="FlashVars" value="book_id=6091884&locale=en_US&token_id=5502538&token=f3521e170dc39b9c970b7affb4ca520863ef2372" data-bindattr-69="69" /><a data-bindattr-70="70" target="_new"><img decoding="async" 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type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-spirituality tag-believers tag-care tag-ceo tag-challenge tag-christ tag-christian tag-connection tag-encouragement tag-faith tag-follow tag-god tag-good tag-graduation tag-harvest tag-help tag-honest tag-identity tag-joseph tag-joseph-batluck tag-just tag-learn tag-man tag-message tag-notes tag-obedience tag-pray tag-prayers tag-psalms tag-reading tag-rest tag-right tag-season tag-service tag-spirit tag-teen-challenge tag-time tag-training tag-walk tag-walk-of-faith tag-weary tag-will"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/notes-from-dr-batluck-dont-grow-weary-of-doing-right/" rel="bookmark">Notes from Dr Batluck-Don’t Grow Weary of Doing Right</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p>The CEO of the <a href="You%20can watch his short NOVA video on his theory here." target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">Teen Challenge Training Center</a> near Bethel, PA spoke at the recent prisoner graduation (<a href="http://reenteringlife.org" target="_blank" rel="noopener noreferrer">LIFE MINISTRIES</a>) ceremony at FCI Schuylkill. Dr Joseph Batluck.</p> <p><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" class="aligncenter size-medium wp-image-15232" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait-233x300.jpg" alt="Batluck_-_Formal_portrait" width="233" height="300" srcset="https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait-233x300.jpg 233w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait-350x450.jpg 350w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait-116x150.jpg 116w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait-467x600.jpg 467w, https://lisadelay.com/blog/wp-content/uploads/2014/10/Batluck_-_Formal_portrait.jpg 787w" sizes="auto, (max-width: 233px) 100vw, 233px" /></p> <p><strong><em>I wanted to take some time to post the highlights from his talk because they impressed me. It wasn’t just a good message for inmates, but for all of us.</em></strong></p> <p><strong><span id="en-NKJV-29196" class="text Gal-6-7"><span class="versenum">THEME</span></span></strong></p> <blockquote><p><strong><span id="en-NKJV-29196" class="text Gal-6-7"><span class="versenum">Galatians 6:7-10</span></span></strong></p> <p><span id="en-NKJV-29196" class="text Gal-6-7"><span class="versenum"> </span>Do not be deceived, God is not mocked; for whatever a man sows, that he will also reap. </span><span id="en-NKJV-29197" class="text Gal-6-8">For he who sows to his flesh will of the flesh reap corruption, but he who sows to the Spirit will of the Spirit reap everlasting life. </span><span id="en-NKJV-29198" class="text Gal-6-9">And let us not grow weary while doing good, for in due season we shall reap if we do not lose heart.</span><span id="en-NKJV-29199" class="text Gal-6-10"><span class="versenum"> </span>Therefore, as we have opportunity, let us do good to all, especially to those who are of the household of faith.</span></p></blockquote> <p><span style="color: #00ccff;"> NOTES:</span></p> <p>We will harvest what we sow.</p> <p>Bad seed reaps bad.</p> <p>Good seed reaps good.</p> <p>Don’t grow weary of doing right.</p> <p>Even in doing right we will grow weary.</p> <p>The Christian Walk of Faith is like a stool with four legs.</p> <p><strong>1. Reading the Bible</strong></p> <p><em>In it we learn who God is.</em></p> <p><strong>2. Prayer</strong></p> <p><em>Communication with God.</em></p> <p>Don’t pray boring prayers. If your prayers are boring they don’t do any good.</p> <p>Let the Psalms be your prayers if your prayers have gotten dull.</p> <p><strong>3. Accountability</strong></p> <p><em>Fellow believers build us us and help to make us more like Christ.</em></p> <p>We must find someone to be honest with and get encouragement from. Iron sharpens iron.</p> <p><strong>4. Service</strong></p> <p>In service to others we become more like Christ. It’s not about us.</p> <hr /> <p>The walk of faith moves through <span style="color: #000000;">three</span> components:</p> <p>First: <strong>CREATION</strong></p> <p>Re-birth into a new identity and connection to Christ through faith a repentance.</p> <p>Second: <strong>FORMATION</strong></p> <p>Through discipleship and obedience we are formed within and beomce more like Christ</p> <p>Third: <strong>DIRECTION</strong></p> <p><span style="color: #00ccff;">God directs our paths and our life. We follow him in faith and allow God to be in charge. We rest in his provision and care for us and he decides where we go.</span></p> <p><strong>Don’t grow weary of doing right.</strong></p> </div> <footer class="entry-footer"> <span class="posted-on"><span class="screen-reader-text">Posted on </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/notes-from-dr-batluck-dont-grow-weary-of-doing-right/" rel="bookmark"><time class="entry-date published" datetime="2014-10-29T07:41:50-04:00">29 October, 2014</time><time class="updated" datetime="2019-10-14T22:09:08-04:00">14 October, 2019</time></a></span><span class="byline"><span class="author vcard"><span class="screen-reader-text">Author </span><a class="url fn n" href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/author/admin/">Spark My Muse</a></span></span><span class="cat-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Categories </span><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/category/spirituality/" rel="category tag">Spirituality</a></span><span class="tags-links"><span class="screen-reader-text">Tags </span><a 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rel="tag">will</a></span> </footer> </article> <article id="post-13281" class="post-13281 post type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-spirituality tag-afraid tag-afterlife tag-answers tag-believers tag-bible tag-body tag-borrow tag-celebrities tag-celebrity tag-christian tag-christianity tag-christians tag-church tag-circumstances tag-creepy tag-death tag-desire tag-doubt tag-end tag-ethics tag-fear tag-feeling tag-forrest tag-friends tag-good tag-grace tag-grace-is tag-group tag-harry-potter tag-hate tag-heart tag-heaven tag-heavy tag-hell tag-horror tag-humble tag-ideas tag-if tag-in tag-influence tag-interesting tag-jesus tag-just tag-leave tag-life tag-love tag-meal tag-mind tag-moments tag-movies tag-mysteries tag-myth tag-people tag-potter tag-prayer tag-prophecy tag-puke tag-purple tag-reason tag-right tag-secular tag-share tag-show tag-small tag-small-group tag-speaking tag-spiritual tag-spooky tag-sunday tag-sunday-morning tag-the-church tag-true tag-trust tag-tv tag-universe tag-unseen tag-values tag-will tag-worry"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/10-misconceptions-christians-have-about-non-believers-part-ii/" rel="bookmark">10 Misconceptions Christians have about non believers-part II</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><em><a title="L'antic poble de Santa Creu / Abandoned medieval village" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/3351433330/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" title="L'antic poble de Santa Creu / Abandoned medieval village" alt="L'antic poble de Santa Creu / Abandoned medieval village" src="http://farm4.staticflickr.com/3619/3351433330_58fe69cd17_m.jpg" /><br /> </a><small><a title="Attribution License" href="http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/2.0/" target="_blank"><img loading="lazy" decoding="async" style="margin: 0; padding: 0;" title="Creative Commons License" alt="Creative Commons License" src="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/wp-content/plugins/compfight/images/cc.png" width="16" height="16" border="0" /></a> <a title="SBA73" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/7455207@N05/3351433330/" target="_blank">SBA73</a> via <a title="Compfight" href="http://www.compfight.com/">Compfight</a></small></em></p> <p> </p> <p><span style="color: #ff0000;"><strong><a href="http://wp.me/p1g2iA-3s9" target="_blank"><span style="color: #ff0000;"><em>This is continued from this 1-5 article.</em></span></a></strong></span></p> <p style="text-align: center;">It’s REALLY helpful to read that part first for context, I assure you!</p> <p>Now on to the next half:</p> <p><strong>6. Non believers live in fear and doubt.</strong></p> <p>It’s interesting that many from inside the Christian bubble will ascribe these attributes to non believers when a simple gaze across the church goers on any Sunday morning will show the very same thing to be true of Christians too. I don’t know anyone who does not live in fear and doubt at least from time-to-time. What some Christians won’t tell you is that the local pharmacists know a lot about their fear and doubt even if those in their small group aren’t privy to the matter. And some people just drink, shop, or puke their fattening meal to cope. <strong>What is more true?</strong> To be human is to fear and doubt. We may call it worry or concern, or a prayer request, but it’s there for Christians and non believers alike.</p> <p><strong>7. Non believers are afraid of death.</strong></p> <p>Some are not. Some Christians are not. Not everyone braves their impending physical demise well. This is not so strange, because imagining not needing or using your body anymore is really odd. Really really odd.</p> <p>Even a Christian who will tell you they know for absolute sure that they will be in heaven with Jesus at the moment of death, as you probe them further and they get into specifics their ideas about all that there is a shift. Either they will often become full of fantasy (sourced in the poetic and figurative descriptions of the afterlife from the Bible which they have illogically decided to take literally [sic.] Pearly gates, streets of gold, or <a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/2011/12/20/heaven-is-for-real-but-is-it-as-silly-as-they-say/" target="_blank">Jesus riding a gigantic purple h</a>orse) or that may dissolve into what becomes rather unsettling admission of mystery. Can you <strong>really</strong> know the particulars? Of course not.</p> <p>It’s thoughtful to be challenged by the unknown–which is what death is. It’s important to come to your end of surety. It keeps us humble and growing. For everyone, that portion of life and death is a matter of faith, no matter what we believe will happen once our heart stops and we will soon be lowered underground. It is creepy because we are used to being alive, breathing and such. We hate it when others we love die, and leave us, and the whole thing is strange, if we are going to be honest. But, are we?</p> <p><strong>8. When they behave properly, non believers unconsciously borrow ethics from Christians.</strong></p> <p>Oaky, on this one, perhaps I’ll say “Yes and No”. In the U.S. the influence of Christianity in our common society is thick and unavoidable.<strong> Yet</strong>, unbeknownst to Christians, behaviors we (Christians) consider good Christian values and ethics are also part of a meta ethic known the world over and through the whole span of human history. (Following through and getting it right is a whole different business, of course.) This meta-ethic, which many secular anthropologists downplay, or quickly chalk up to darwinian processes, (ad hoc mind you) actually seem to point toward the transcendent. The philosophers get into this quite a bit. So, the part of us that is involved with consciousness is ever-present and point to a place off our seen “map” if you will. Call it the “Devine Spark”, “God”, Yahweh, the Universe (if something impersonal could somehow also be personal, by whatever), the “higher self” (a la Alcoholics Anonymous), or what-have-you…we are essentially speaking of the same big thing… that incidentally is no <em>thing</em>. The Other, the great I AM, the life force, and really when we split hair on that big point, we miss the forrest for the trees.</p> <p><strong>9. Non believers discredit the unseen world.</strong></p> <p>This is hardly ever true. Yes, there are a few full blown materialists, but like the unicorn, they are rarely seen and then, only for a few fleeting moments in the perfect circumstances like when painted on velvet or when Harry Potter is nearby.</p> <p>The desire to discover the mysteries of life are ever-present. Media is a great barometer for this. For instance, witness the many horror genre movies (ghosts, zombies, paranormal stuff, aliens, etc) and all the tv shows groping for answers from the spooky and paranormal night-vision scenes from the many television shows on cable, to the mediums, psychics, and spiritual celebrity gurus and even mega-church personalities (Yes. I’m including everyone from Joel Osteen, (Joyce) Myers, Oprah, Deepak Chopra, and Rick Warren, to Billy Graham, and the Dali Lama). <strong>Our gurus and guides are plentiful and that’s because the demand for them is so high.</strong> Plus, the prophecy folks of all stripes continue their empires as the masses feeling around in the murkiness for answers.</p> <p><strong>10. Non believers are going to hell one day.</strong></p> <p>Okay, this is the one that may get me the hate mail. Just hang on! The reason that this is a misconception is because we can’t know how Grace will or won’t affect a person once they die. We trust in Grace. In the idea of it existing; in the Being that doles it. Can we know another person’s heart that well? I doubt it when our own heart is so unfathomable and fickle for us. Grace is big. As big as you think it is, you are wrong. It’s bigger. I’m always wrong about grace because I cannot fathom it for too long.</p> <p><span style="color: #339966;"><em>Thank you for joining me. If this article made you think, please share it with someone.</em></span></p> <p><span style="color: #339966;"><em>Sign up for the next article? 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type-post status-publish format-standard hentry category-spirituality tag-afraid tag-belief tag-beliefs tag-believers tag-best tag-borrow tag-change tag-christian tag-christian-theology tag-christianity tag-christians tag-conservative tag-disability tag-do tag-dry tag-eating tag-eternal tag-ethics tag-evidence tag-false tag-family tag-fear tag-fine tag-following tag-forgiveness tag-fundamentalist tag-god tag-good tag-good-god tag-goodness tag-grace tag-grace-is tag-group tag-guess tag-guilt tag-happy tag-heavy tag-help tag-history tag-holy tag-humor tag-i-am tag-ideas tag-if tag-in tag-incarnation tag-interest tag-interesting tag-jesus tag-just tag-knowledge tag-learning tag-lens tag-life tag-looks tag-love tag-mental tag-mind tag-mystery tag-myth tag-opportunity tag-peace tag-peace-with-god tag-people tag-plays tag-post tag-power tag-reality tag-regard tag-savior tag-secret tag-share tag-source tag-speaking tag-spiritual tag-stemming tag-theology tag-things tag-thinking tag-true tag-truth tag-understanding tag-universal tag-unknown tag-unseen tag-value tag-wet tag-why tag-will tag-work tag-worldview"> <header class="entry-header"> <h2 class="entry-title"><a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/10-misconceptions-christians-have-about-non-believers/" rel="bookmark">10 Misconceptions Christians have about non believers</a></h2> </header> <div class="entry-content"> <p><a title="Christ Pantocrator study" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/71302538@N00/318143091/" target="_blank"><img decoding="async" title="Christ Pantocrator study" alt="Christ Pantocrator study" src="http://farm1.staticflickr.com/144/318143091_93bf37a222_m.jpg" /></a><small> </small></p> <p><small><a title="DUCKMARX" href="http://www.flickr.com/photos/71302538@N00/318143091/" target="_blank">DUCKMARX</a> via <a title="Compfight" href="http://www.compfight.com/">Compfight</a></small></p> <p><strong><em>This might read heavy because I’m confronting some pervasive concepts. It’s like I’m playing the heavy, but try to read it in a gracious spirit because it is meant to bring clarity not conflict. Plus, I have a <span style="text-decoration: underline;">damp</span> sense of humor <strong><em> [not too wet and not super dry either] </em></strong>so take that into account. Chill and stuff.</em></strong></p> <p><em>Okay, buckle in for the bit of Groundwork:</em></p> <p>First, from my end, I make no secret here that I see things from the paradigm of a Christian worldview. This has been my family background, my life experience, and the central feature in my graduate education. That’s my lens.</p> <p>In having a lens I’m not alone. In fact, every one sees reality through his or her own lens, but not everyone will really investigate and coordinate their worldview in a consistent way. I won’t either, not because I’m not making an effort, but because seeing the task to completion is so massive and unwieldy. As I approach this topic I come with a vatanage point…and so do you.</p> <p><strong>We can take as a given:<br /> Our beliefs will cloud our perceptions and our perceptions will work to <span style="text-decoration: underline;">evidence</span> our <span style="text-decoration: underline;">already held</span> beliefs</strong>–except in rare cases where we make a focused and conscious effort to consider or accept another point of view. Those cases are quite rare because we tend to use our life experiences to back up what we already think is true. (I’m reiterating.) So, when a change happens–it can be big. This is essentially how the Christian idea of “conversion” plays out too: <em><strong>A person is thinking one thing about reality, and somehow becomes convinced of something else and has a turnaround to something new.</strong> Christians would also say God had a direct part in igniting that process.</em></p> <p><strong>Peeking outside the Bubble:<br /> In learning more about the people outside the Christian belief “bubble,” I’ve noticed that plenty of my assumptions about non Christians were flawed, false, or incomplete. Other times, I’ve noticed that while some of these perceptions may ring true at first blush, they more often reflect a universal truth about what it means to be human, (and do not effectively describe the group that doesn’t ascribe to the Christian belief system.)</strong></p> <p>The 10 misconceptions are things that many Christians want to be true. If they are not it <em>could</em> convince them that Christianity doesn’t provide the best answers. This fear can cause people to be even more unreasonable or averse to mystery…even though Christianity is chocked full of mystery.<strong> I’ve come to a place where I am more settled with mystery.</strong></p> <p><strong>Christianity provides a framework for me</strong>, and everyone has a framework whether they know it or not and whether they like it or not. Christianity takes many shapes in different eras and in different cultures. Since I came from a conservative fundamentalist background I first saw the world through that lens. I haven’t retained all those same beliefs. Now the beliefs I ascribe to are not as important as the person I am becoming. Jesus as God-man is <em>plausible</em> and that is fine for me. For others, that simply will not be enough. For non Christians it will be too narrow for their spirituality. I also realize that Christians may sometimes perpetuate myths for an imperious framework needed to maintain fervency.</p> <p><strong>Better that we see these misconceptions for what they are than run afoul with them and forget whose image is the object of our recreation.</strong> (That would be Jesus, through the power of the Holy Spirit, if you aren’t following me.) I give you these misconceptions to expand your ideas about the Christian framework and how it can help more than hurt.</p> <p>Now to the 10 Misconceptions:</p> <p><strong>1. Non believers aren’t spiritual, or at best they are pseudo spiritual.</strong></p> <p>This is false because the amount of mystery and the unknown in life as we perceive it (being finite in mind and body) all point to the spiritual (the unseen). What is <em>pseudo spiritual</em> to some is more likely to be something that smacks as out of sync with one’s prescribed Christian beliefs. We are all spiritual and what we try to understand outside of we what is know is be definition <em>spiritual</em>, whether is a referred at that or not. The interest in spiritual things has been vibrant throughout human history as long as we have been trying to understanding our world. The “brand” (if you will) of spiritual that is may be may be off-putting depending on your experience, training, or preferences. Ex: “Using Tarot cards is pseudo spiritual.” Actually, using them is an attempt to understand the spiritual, but for Christians it falls outside the scope of what is acceptable because of the tenants residing in the Bible.</p> <p><strong>2. Non believers aren’t happy because they don’t know Jesus.</strong></p> <p>This is a complex and interesting misconception because it assumes that Christians are happy, by contrast. Many are not. Many are miserable and their Christian belief system has not given them this happiness. Christians may behave as if they are discontent or unhappy also. Certainly some Christians <span style="text-decoration: underline;">are</span> content and at peace for periods of time, and some are remarkably hopeful and peaceful is even the most horrible circumstances. Nevertheless this is <span style="text-decoration: underline;">also</span> true of non Christians.</p> <p><strong>3. Non believers do good things to “get them to heaven”, or to otherwise alleviate their sin-guilt.</strong></p> <p>What is more often the case is that people (Christian and non) try to do good things because they feel they should. Their motivations are quite varied and prove to be shallow or to be deep. Christians, though they may feel their eternal destiny is secure, will do good things sometimes for reasons just as poorly conceived as non believers. Strangely, it can boil down, in the final count, to semantics. It’s false to guess the true motivations of why people do good. <em>Better to do Good for the love of it and accept the good at face value as it can only be originally sourced in the Source of goodness–apart from whom no goodness dwells.</em> The idea that actual goodness cannot come from non Christians contradicts the Christian precept that a good God has created all of us and that same God works through all of creation, (and even those who do not knowledge “him”.)</p> <p><strong>4. Non believers can’t have peace with God.</strong></p> <p>For Christians, peace with God usually looks like a publicly confessed accession to the belief that Jesus is the Savior who died for the sins of humankind (i.e. somehow understanding atonement). But, in general, peace with God is probably as varied as there are people in the world. Grace is sufficient and comes in a manner of ways that point to the ultimate work of Grace that is of and from God. If by peace we are really speaking of contentment, and not atonement, then many do arrive at peace with God at some point in their lives. Many also arrive at a place of grace and forgiveness as it is God’s prerogative how this happens. The very idea of <em>grace</em> necessitates that a mental ascension is not the crux of the matter at all. Sometimes it is not at all involved as any modicum of studying a Christian theology of (mental) disability will reveal. Grace does not require anything on the part of the recipient accept perhaps a sort of acceptance. What that does or doesn’t have to be has be a rueful point over the years but is actually quite simple and easy if we are to believe in its true nature.</p> <p><strong>5. Non believers have misperceptions about reality and their place in the world.</strong></p> <p>Our finite minds give each person the opportunity to routinely misperceive reality, regardless of her beliefs in Jesus or God. No one has the corner on this problem. We share our foolishness in this regard across the whole spectrum of humankind. To think otherwise is to underscore the misperception.</p> <p>Since this post is getting too long, the next 5 misconceptions will be revealed in the next post-<a href="https://lisadelay.com/blog/blog/2013/11/05/10-misconceptions-christians-have-about-non-believers-part-ii/" target="_blank">here</a>.</p> <p>Thanks for reading!</p> <p><em>Pass this along, will you?</em></p> <p>Do you agree? 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Eps 146: Punk Prayers, Embodied Theology; Guest Petra Carlsson Redell

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A classic children’s book for adults too.