Hippie Preacher
The Personal Blog of Aubrey Robertson
All About ‘Dat Grace
My apologies for those of you who now have that “about dat bass” song in your head now, but lately I’ve been perplexed about something. Is following the Messiah really a trouble free, easy grace ride? I’m not at all trying to suggest that we are rescued (saved) from...
Not Conservative, Liberal or a Mini
I’ve never been fond of labels. The words conservative, liberal, even Christian are thrown around so much that the meaning morphs depending on the target or the thrower. Many Christians don’t know that their favorite label likely started as a derogatory slam. It...
The Time Bandit
Time sneaks around like Flash the superhero. Sometimes you don’t even realize it’s moving and zoom — weeks, months, years have passed. Then there is that moment of lucidity where you feel the faint afterbreeze of that passing whirlwind and you marvel at how you ended...
I’m So Hungry
I live in the most prosperous country in history, but I'm so hungry. My biggest food dilemma is whether I'm going to make nachos or just have Cheetos for a midnight snack, but I'm so hungry. We have the choice of several mega markets within minutes of our house...
The Birth of a Grown Man
Yeah I know it sounds like a National Enquirer headline, but today is my birthday of sorts. Actually a rebirth day would be more accurate. A year ago today I attended church after a long time away and had an unexpected encounter with God's grace and forgiveness that...
Giants In The Promised Land
Numbers 13:31-3331 Then the men who had gone up with him said, "We are not able to go up against the people, for they are stronger than we are."32 So they brought to the people of Israel a bad report of the land that they had spied out, saying, "The land, through...
For You – Communion
Short Sermon about Communion and what is meant by "for you" delivered during the Resurrection Celebration April 8th, 2012. Let me go over with you again exactly what goes on in the Lord's Supper and why it is so centrally important. I received my instructions from the...
Seek First
Matt 6:31-33 [KJV] Therefore take no thought, saying, What shall we eat? or, What shall we drink? or, Wherewithal shall we be clothed? (For after all these things do the Gentiles seek:) for your heavenly Father knoweth that ye have need of all these things. But seek...
Your Own, Personal Jesus?
Anybody remember that Depeche Mode song from the eighties. Some thought it sacrilege. But this post isn't really about that song, except for the similarities to a doctrine that to me is a total misrepresentation of what following the Messiah is all about. Recently I...
Living In The Holodeck
By faith we understand that the worlds were framed by the word of God, so that the things which are seen were not made of things which are visible. (Hebrews 11:3 NKJV) I love Star Trek. The thought of having a holodeck where any environment can be emulated is...