• So Why the Blog Title?

Gay and Evangelical

~ Mutually Exclusive?

Gay and Evangelical

Tag Archives: hope

Link

Presumption? Despair?

13 Wednesday Mar 2013

Posted by Dave in Personal, Theology

≈ Leave a Comment

Tags

depression, despair, homosexuality, hope, reparative therapy

Wesley Hill has written a great article over at the First Things blog. One of my favorite moments of the article is this:

This is what bothers me about what I hear from certain kinds of reparative therapies: offering hope to gay people seems to amount to a prediction of orientation change (assuming the correct regimen is followed). And whenever a Christian expresses doubt about the surety of that prediction, the response can often take the form of, ‘Well, you just don’t have enough faith.’ (Or as a licensed professional counselor, a Christian with a certain angle on reparative therapy, once said to me, ‘That sounds like depression.’)

Yeah…something like that. :-(

Check it out.

And Death Shall Have No Dominion

18 Tuesday Dec 2012

Posted by Dave in Personal, Theology

≈ 2 Comments

Tags

death, eschatology, hope, poetry, sin, theology

Dylan Thomas

This morning, as I study for my Hebrew exam, I was taking a short break and flipping through a book that a friend bought me for Christmas a couple of years ago. Dylan Thomas is one of his favorite poets and I think he’ll become one of mine before too much longer.

I must admit that poetry is a language which is, despite my being a composer, continually foreign to me. I’m much more at home in the language of the textbook or other prose; and yet, as a musician, poetry calls to me. This poem certainly did.

Continue reading »

Gay and Evangelical

RSS Feed RSS - Posts

RSS Feed RSS - Comments

Top Posts

  • Here Come the Grooms: Why Gay Marriage Will Be Legalized in the U. S.
  • So Why the Blog Title?
  • Dangerous teaching from Beth Moore
  • Temptation and Consequence
  • Crushes, Theology, Girls: Not in that order
  • What if there was a girl?
  • Injustices and Uniforms
  • Response to Randy Alcorn and Abortion
  • Suffering and the Gospel
  • Complicated Relationships

Topics I Discuss

assurance of pardon books C. F. W. Walther Calvinism Christmas confession culture dating depression experience false teaching family friendship Gospel homosexuality hymns insecurity Law leadership loneliness Luke Lutheranism Mark music Paul politics prayer preaching psalms Reformed Theology relationships repentance Rod Rosenbladt Romans sanctification science Scripture sexuality sexual sin temptation theology Watson witnessing work worship

Archive

Search My Blog

Blog at WordPress.com. Theme: Chateau by Ignacio Ricci.