April 13, 2013
Who do you kiss goodbye first when you leave your house each day? For children to understand love, they must understand they are loved by their parents and they are loved by God. Most parents inherently do a good job of loving their children. And many do a good job of explaining to their children that God loves them, but where I have seen many […]
April 3, 2013
Joshua Place Celebrates its First Anniversary!! (Cue spontaneous applause and wild jubilation) First of all, a hearty thank you for your stay at The Joshua Place last year. In so doing, you helped fulfill our mission, which is to provide a haven of rest and relaxation for Christian leaders and their families. We happily celebrated our first-year anniversary this January. In our inaugural year we […]
March 22, 2013
Based off of a recent comical sign I saw, I am suggesting this as the wording for signs surrounding the game fields for All Out Sports. PLEASE REMEMBER: 1) THE ATHLETES ARE ONLY CHILDREN 2) THIS IS A ONLY A GAME 3) THE COACHES ARE VOLUNTEERS 4) THE REFEREES/UMPIRES ARE HUMAN 5) YOU ARE HERE TO SUPPORT AND ENCOURAGE 6) YOU ARE NOT HERE TO […]
October 15, 2012
The Smoose I’ll take just a second to introduce, myself of course, Smoose E. Smoose. But, don’t call me a moose, I am neither or not, a koala, a panda or an ocelot. I’m a smoose, not a moose, we are not the same when you call me a moose it drives me insane. A moose has a rack that sits on his head, and […]
July 13, 2012
Conclusion The truth of the matter is that no human being has the capabilities to properly understand how God works in creation. The goal of human philosophy is to try to best understand how humans perceive God to work in creation. Christians are aided with the help of absolute truth confined within the pages of scripture. Unfortunately many Christians have relegated much of the truth […]
July 12, 2012
Three Possibilities The Bible is clear that God operates a world that has elements of both free will and predestination in it. The difficulty is determining Biblically what that world looks like and how the will of man can be explained in a Biblical framework within that world. After narrowing down the acceptable possibilities to three, the acceptable explanation to understanding the will of […]
July 11, 2012
POPULAR VIEWS ON FREE WILL AND PRE-DESTINATION Determinism, Indeterminism, Compatibilism, Incompatibilism, and Libertarianism Determinism is the thesis that the past and the laws of nature together determine, at every moment, a unique future.[1] The outright denial of this definition of determinism is indeterminism.[2] Hard determinists accept determinism and reject free will. Incompatibilism is the belief that free will and determinism are not compatible and […]
July 17, 2015
Check out my new blog, 5 Ways to Survive the Christian Fiction Downturn, at The Write Conversation! http://thewriteconversation.blogspot.com/2015/07/5-ways-to-survive-christian-fiction.html
July 15, 2015
My new magazine article, Barren But Priceless, released today in Broken But Priceless Magazine. Check it out by subscribing at this link. http://www.erinelizabethaustin.com
July 11, 2015
Some people talk about dangling the carrot before the horse. I don’t have carrots, but I do have Cheetos—at least they’re the same color. My family and I climbed Copperhead Summit in Black Mountain, NC. It took twice as long as it should have, because we took along my three-year old son, Carrick. His little legs churned so fast. I’m sure he felt like he […]