Settled Knowledge?
AI will be a powerful tool for making connections that haven't yet been made. The possibilities for chemistry, weather prediction, engineering, and more are fascinating. All this depends on massive historical data sets. Then, testing AI predictions will add to these data sets. The cycle will continue.
But what about completely new discoveries, those rare finds that open up whole new directions? Is everything knowable already known? What about relational knowing? Knowing God? There's much still to be discovered that machines alone won't find.
Real Change
Do not conform to the pattern of this world, but be transformed by the renewing of your mind. Then you will be able to test and approve what God’s will is—his good, pleasing and perfect will. ⏤ Romans 12:2
Do not conform. Be transformed. Renew your mind. Formation is the process of moving from conformity in one pattern to conformity in another. Transformation is the deep-seated result of that process. Heart, soul, mind, and strength catch up to a change in identity.
Faith Becomes Sight
Fight the good fight of the faith. Take hold of the eternal life to which you were called and about which you made the good confession in the presence of many witnesses. — 1 Timothy 6:12
Paul said, The only thing that counts is faith working through love. Fighting the good fight of faith means redirecting our trust back to God again and again. For that, we're rewarded with a life of stability. But it doesn't mean the fight is easy. Walking by faith can be exhausting sometimes. There is a new level of relief and rest when faith becomes sight.
- love
- Holy Spirit
- humility
- church
- politics & society
- mission & witness
- holiness
- parable & metaphor
- identity
- eternal life
- doubt & deconstruction
- leadership
- grace
- justice
- scripture
- spiritual life
- advent & christmas
- poverty & compassion
- imagination & creativity
- technology & ai
- knowing God
- human dignity
- faith & trust
- incarnation & cross
- kingdom of God
- community
- reconciliation
- spiritual formation
- epistemology
- prayer
- gratitude
- culture
- creation & nature
- discipleship
The God of the Bible looks like Jesus, the radiance of God’s glory and the exact representation of his being. It would be just like him to go to the cross.