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View the full archive of If Grace Is True Why Our Beliefs About God Matter - Theology 101 Philip Gulley-I watched the debate Thursday night with my family.   Times aren't too good in our country right now, and we know that because the politicians are no longer concerning themselves with religion.  I don't believe I heard the word God mentioned even once.  This probably was a vast relief to God, who often gets talked about, but is seldom given ninety seconds to respond. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | God - Theology 101 Philip Gulley-Know a man who bought a big, old house that had fallen into disrepair.  He wanted to fix it up and live there.  It was a huge house, its problems were extensive, and after a few months of work it became clear he had underestimated the complexity of the project and overestimated his ability to fix it.  Last week, when I said I would be answering the question "Who is God?" today, it seems I underestimated the complexity of the question and overestimated ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Object Of Faith Jim Mulholland-I get irritated when sports figures accomplish some great feat - scoring a winning touchdown, or pitching a no hitter, or sinking a game winning basket â and then say, "I give all the glory to God." Those words are like fingernails on a blackboard to me. I always cringe. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | When All Things Work For Good Philip Gulley-Joan and I rode our bicycles to the Dairy Queen last week.  In our family we have to earn our ice cream by pedaling a mile uphill.  So we were up there eating our ice cream cones and a teenage boy sat next to me on the long bench and we began to talk.  His mannerisms, facial expressions, and even the tone of his voice, were familiar to me, but I couldnât place him, and was too embarrassed to ask his name.  Then his mother approached and I remembered who he ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Is Religion A Mental Illness Jim Mulholland-I've been studying mental illness this past week and I'm worried.  I thought I was mentally healthy, but now I'm not so certain.  I have a lot of the symptoms I've been reading about. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Eliminating Our Enemies Jim Mulholland-I was taught from an early age to love my enemies and to pray for those who persecuted me.  That wasn't a popular lesson for the teachers or the students.  When you have an enemy, you don't want to love them.  You want to eliminate them.  But we didn't have much choice.  Jesus commanded it.  We had to do it, whether we liked it or not. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | All The Ways To Be Rich Philip Gulley-Our nation's leaders gathered Thursday evening at the White House to rescue the nation from economic peril.  I wasn't invited, so instead went to the Olive Garden in Avon to help Gene Carter celebrate his birthday.  Then I came home and went for a walk around the block.  It was dark, and the stars were out.  I could see the Big Dipper and the North Star, Polaris, which is 430 light years away, which means I was seeing it as it was in 1578, long before the w ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Stories We Tell and the Stories We Believe Philip Gulley-Last week, our neighbors had their annual hog roast and our family went, as has been our custom since we first moved to Danville.  The neighbors have a camper.  A rite of passage for the teenage boys was to spend the night of the hog roast in the camper, so this year we told Spencer he could do that.  When Spencer came home the next morning, I asked him what they'd done.  He said they talked around the campfire until midnight then did a few more things, wen ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Learning From Loss Jim Mulholland-Sometimes I love open worship and sometimes I despise it. This past Sunday was the latter. A group of us were sitting in worship at Fairfield Meeting. Phil had greeted us at the door. People had been warm and welcoming. The sermon had been funny and insightful. It had been a pleasant morning. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maturity #4 Philip Gulley-It is good to be back at Fairfield.  I was in Chicago last weekend speaking at a conference.  Took the family with me and on our way home on Sunday morning we stopped at the Navy Pier to sight-see and while there bumped into Jonathan and Rafia Chenoweth and little Rania.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking Religion With Other Christians Jim Mulholland-Whenever people talk about the beauty and wisdom of the Bible, I wonder if they've read the book.   I worry they've limited their reading to the 23rd Psalm and the 13th chapter of I Corinthians.  Or that they've ripped long passages out of their family Bibles.  Having read the Bible from cover to cover, I've found as much ugliness and ignorance as beauty and wisdom. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maturity 5 - Empathy Philip Gulley-I remember when I was about five years old and there was this girl who lived down the street from us who was overweight.  She came down to our house to play.  I became upset with her and began making fun of her size.  My father overheard me and when I came in for supper, he was waiting for me.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Maturity #6 Philip Gulley-We've been thinking and talking about maturity.  Today, I want to leave us with this final thought:  Mature people are those who enhance life, not diminish it.  Or staying with our analogyâmature people know two wolves battle within them, and give careful thought to the wolf they feed.  They feed the habits and attitudes that enhance life.  They starve the habits and attitudes that diminish life. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking Religion With Non-Christians Jim Mulholland-Sometimes I forget how quickly the world is changing.  This weekend, I was playing with Madeline and Olivia, my five and three year old nieces.  They'd caught a lighting bug and asked me what they should feed it.  When I said I didn't know, Madeline said, âLet's look on the internet.â Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Talking About Religion With Atheists Jim Mulholland-This past month, we've been examining the ways we talk about religion with ourselves, our peers, other Christians and even non-Christians.  We've looked at the obstacles and explored the benefits of discussing religion.  We've been encouraged to have these conversations rather than to fear them.  I hope youâve found the exploration as interesting and as helpful as I have.  Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Bible According To Jim Jim Mulholland-I've been preaching for twenty years now.  That means I've preached about a thousand sermons.  Over the years, I honed by skills and developed my style.  And I suspect my seminary preaching professor would not be happy with me. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Stories We Tell Part 2 Philip Gulley-I've been thinking this week of Esau and Jacob. Some people have been thinking of Michael Phelps winning the gold in Beijing, or Bridget Sloan, our fellow Hendricks Countian, performing so ably and admirably. Some people have been thinking of the hostility between Georgia and Russia and the long history of Eastern European strife. Some people have been thinking of school and the summer winding to a close. There have been any number of things to think about this week, but I ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | The Stories We Tell Part 3 Philip Gulley-My mother's father, Henry Quinett, was born in 1904 in Belgium, and with his family sailed on the Red Star boat line to America in 1909. They arrived at Ellis Island, where his name was changed from Henrà QuinÃt to Henry Quinett. Because my grandfather was never one to hurry a decision, he lived here thirty-one years before becoming a citizen in 1939. His citizenship papers are framed and hanging in my garage, above his workbench, next to his woodworking apron. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Naming Our Losses Jim Mulholland-Last week, our family gathered in Michigan for the annual Mulholland reunion.  Itâs a week of canoeing, swimming at the beach, playing cards, sitting around the campfire, eating too much food and reminiscing.  I've attended the reunion 43 times in my 47 years.  When I drive through the tunnel of trees leading to our cabins, it's entering a cathedral.  I get the shivers.  I feel religious. Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache | Things Jesus Taught #7 Philip Gulley-When I was a kid, back in the Stone Ages before video games and we had to provide our own entertainment, we would play a game we called What If?   The game was played by asking questions beginning with the words "What ifâ".   The questions were fairly predictable.  What if you won a million dollars?  What if you were the President?  What if the communists invaded us?  The winner, of course, was the person who came up with the m ... Listen | Listen in your iPhone | Download | View full cache |