OutHouse Theologians

Science said that we are locked into our DNA and can’t change. Science now says that our body can reinterpret its unchanging DNA in the emerging study of epigenetics. Science says a lot of things, to the extent that we have a difficult time comprehending all that is being discovered, much less assimilating it all into a rational paradigm.  God has been speaking since the beginning. Much of what he...

It is very common today to see lives portrayed as helpless victims of the choices others have made. And yet, there is one choice we can make that places us at the center around which all life revolves, and releases our destiny into the hands of the One who can decide our future... and that choice is unconditional surrender to the God whose divine plan for us is also our best possible life on this...

God is after the heart. And where the heart is, there's always an emotional response. Logic meets its limits as it approaches the human person, whose emotional and spiritual aspects refuse to be negated by the rules of simple logic. In fact, humanity and God don't make any sense at all until we bring Jesus into the equation as the 2 in E = mc²

God has the timing, the distance, and the direction to bring his plan about—even when we sometimes end up working against him more than with him.

Nothingness is our ultimate truth apart from God. It is all meaningless, a chasing after the wind. It is only when we come into agreement with the Word spoken since Creation, reverberating throughout all time, that we find the divine creation alive in us—the Temple which God envisioned as the vessel in which His Spirit could abide on this earth and the chosen method of enacting His will, through t...

The mystery of God’s works, especially in mystical experiences like laughter or speaking in tongues as an overwhelmed response to the revelation of his presence, serves not to confirm and appoint us to a special service, but to remind us of the “foolish” things of God which confound the wise. The greatest thing I could ever be is a fool for Christ. The fakest thing I could ever be is a Christian c...

We don’t have to understand it. We don’t have to bind it with cords of theology to dominate it, control it and direct it along our delicate rational paths… It is wild and undignified, but also glorious and good. It is sometimes intelligible, others indecipherable. It flows where it will like a mighty flood, even though there are those who would try to erect dams and every kind of barrier to the mo...

We love to make up a bunch of rules locking off the Kingdom of God—making it part of our personal culture and heritage and denying access to anyone from outside our group. And yet we cannot even comprehend this God that we serve, much less condense the totality of our experience of him into a list of rules and behaviors. We must extend the Kingdom of God in the same grace of adoption which we enco...

Culture is a gift from God. Sometimes we have a hard time differentiating our own culture from our religious observances, and as a result we end up judging others based on cultural differences, while missing the same Spirit that God has put in us. But God delights in redeeming what he has made, demonstrating the fulfillment of the truths within a culture while doing away with the lies.

Jesus is interceding for us, the Holy Spirit is working in our hearts... But have we learned how to speak God's language? When he calls an audible, do we respond, or are we stuck in the rut of the play we designed on the practice field?

The light shines in the darkness, and the darkness has not understood it.  The darkness cannot comprehend it. The darkness cannot overcome it. The darkness is undone by the unstoppable, unconquerable, inescapable light of God.

If the light within you is darkness, how great is that darkness! We have a gracious and patient God, but there comes a time when our next choice might be final: to embrace the light, or to disappear into the great darkness.

Often we are searching, without knowing what we seek. Yet it is God, the answer, who is seeking us, to free us from the sickness of our sin and work in us that transforming miracle of a new creation.

Your eyes will never be the same...

Matt, Eric and Kevin talk about God.