Christianity is weird!
2025 Sep 26I believe that Christianity is what makes the most sense of human existence, but it also is full of weird.
God
The Christian god is a being that exists by necessity, therefore, God was not created. God is a maximally great being. There is no superior or even equivalent being. All power, intellect, knowledge and good morality is of and originates from God. This single infinite being is in three distinct persons (called Father, Son & Holy Spirit). These persons exist in harmonious continuous relationship.
God is the source of all being, and the origin of all other existence. God made all space, energy, matter and living things by speaking them into existence out of nothing. God made humans with intellect, free will and inherent personal value, finite beings in the image of God.
God the Son took on humanity; Jesus of Nazareth was born a dependent human infant. For a time he set aside his powers of deity, but in his person he continued to be God. He learned as a youth and grew to human adulthood. He participated in the full range of human experience, including both good and the bad. Jesus even died, brutally killed for no fault of his own. However, God raised Jesus from the dead, remade fully alive, physical and still human.
Introduction to Music Theory
2025 Aug 27Musical keys start on a named note and go up following a pattern.
Scales and Names
Every musical key has 7 notes that go up from the first note. The 8th note following it sounds similar to the first one although it is higher. It is an octave up.
That 8th note also has the same name as the 1st because the notes going up (or going down) repeat in a cycle. All these notes together are called a scale. A scale is a set of notes that all sound good together.
Materialism - 2025 October
Today we can say really that materialism has become an irrational belief.” - Michel-Yves Bolloré
(Quote context and citations are in the note links).
What is a spiritual life?
2025 Jul 4I was stopped in the car, and another car was beside me. It was a gorgeous, bright, warm spring morning. There was a young person in the other car - slouched and bored. It looked as if they felt life was meaningless in that moment.
I was not bored because my day would be full of tasks and events. Did that make my life more meaningful? I wondered if even though my day would be busy, could it also be a spiritual day?
Good News: Read all about it!
Find out about
- The Simple Good News
- values that you (and others) can choose that strengthen relationships
- how this makes sense of spiritual things that are otherwise confusing
- and please choose this way of living
This is an approach for living based on what Jesus taught and is pragmatically useful both for those that follow Jesus or for those that just admire him.
I'm Larry Grove, and my wife is Melanie. We have three adult sons and our family has continued to grow.