Here I am again. At church. For the community. For my wife. For some potential wisdom that transcends religion. Wisdom is knowledge applied. Wisdom through the revelation of an engineering teacher? This latter statement is what the preacher talked about. Science and engineering are data-driven, not by presupposition.

Miracle of the Holy Spirit that this preacher asked a delivery guy how he was doing? I just call that being a compassionate individual. No need to attribute this sentiment to a third party. Own your shit.

Here are my observations from the sermon:

1. Hail Mary pass—football reference. Cliche. No surprise here.
2. Quid pro quo (I do something for you, you do something for me), apparently is not what the system of Christianity is all about. If God isn’t about quid pro quo, why is doing his will written as though it is, from His perspective?
3. Prayer alone does nothing. Wisdom and thankfulness are a mindset that prayer supposedly supports. Meditation and actions speak louder when paired together. Practice and tradition building. Make your plan actionable. Community is key. Without this, prayer and “spirituality” mean very little.
4. Asking how someone is doing, someone you don’t know, is not a miracle. Secular people do this as well. The miracle bar has been lowered substantially since the writing of the Bible.
5. Unconditional love in the church is total bullshit. Why do I have to confess then? Does unconditional even mean anything? If accountability is a condition of love, then by definition love is not unconditional.
6. Grace and wrath are mutually exclusive. Salvation means absolutely nothing when these two attributes are attached to an anthropomorphic god.