The Articles

Five Introduction Articles: Recovering Mere Christianity

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Start with God is Holy (Read 1st)

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The A Deo Lumen Vision (Read 2nd)

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Sin as Misplaced Love and Self Worship

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Saved from defeated Christian Life

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Image of God is the ability to be holy: (Read 3rd)

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Forgiveness in the Analogy of Mirrors

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The God of Love or the God of Power

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Work as Worship

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More Reasons to Reject “sin nature”

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Comparing with Catholicism

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Love Above Glory

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Understanding God’s Hardening of Hearts

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Avoid Repetitious Prayer as Nagging

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Comparing with Wesleyanism

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Free Will: God Respects His Image: (Read 4th)

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All Will Sin; None are Sinful at Birth

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Pain and Suffering: A God who Loves

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The Trinity: Love at the Heart of Reality

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Anxiety as Indication to Pray

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Comparing with Reformed

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LUMEN as an Acronym

Comparing with Eastern Orthodox

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LUMEN is not Liberal nor Revisionist

Week 2

The Fall Did not Mar the Image of God

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Why God Uses Faith not Sight

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Prayer as Divine Dance

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Love is the Only Possible Gift

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Prayer: Participation and Pedagogy

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Verses Determinism Misinterprets

Week 3

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Christianity No One Need Fear

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LUMEN Honors Scripture

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Answers to Main Objections

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Patience: The Self-Gift of Love

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Dominion of Mankind is Respected by God

Faith as Trust not Force

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So What? Application (Read 5th — final introduction)

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An Invitation: What if this is True?

January 2026

Week 1

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Why Prayer is a Precursor for God’s Action

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“Is it an issue of salvation” is the wrong question

February 2026

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God So Loved the World: Not Just “the Elect”

The Relational Structure of the Universe

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Sharing and Inviting to LUMEN

Week 5

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Like Father Like Son: Jesus Our Exemplar

Week 4

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Includes more than 40 Essays, many of them from this site slightly edited for clarity and integration of further thought, arranged and introduced in seven sections. Some of the new articles include:

Why Christianity Has Quietly Drifted into Control

Divine Partnership and Pedagogy: Why God Acts When we Pray

Dominion Granted Mankind: Impact on Authority, Earth, and Prayer

The Great Dance Behind All Things

Maturing in the Faith

Faith to do the Miraculous

Prayer and the Playground of Life

What LUMEN Is Not (and Why That Matters)

How God as Holy is at the Center

Why God Waits to Act

How This Theology Changed the Way I Pray…and Me

Why Holiness, Prayer, and Freedom Cannot Be Separated

An Invitation: Christianity the Way It Was Meant to Be

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“For the love of Christ controls us, having concluded this, that one died for all, therefore all died; and He died for all, that they who live should no longer live for themselves, but for Him who died and rose again on their behalf” (2 Cor. 5:14-15 NAS).