Saturday, June 25, 2011 at 8:03AM | by Otter In this economy, maybe Jesus is insulted by the fact that the overwhelming majority of us are not paid as our talents deserve. But there's something depressingly self-centered about a theology that says Jesus is insulted on our behalf because we're not scoring a $1500 a night gig.
Friday, April 23, 2010 at 2:22PM | by Otter From The Mailbag:
I often hear people refer to how Christians cannot do things in their own strength, but only 'through Christ'.
Can someone explain this to me? What does this look like applied to our everyday lives? How do we stop trying to do things in 'our own strength' and do them 'through Christs' ?
I think this is one of those questions that troubles a lot more people than care to admit to it. It's like those words that we vaguely think we know the meanings of but really couldn't define if we had to: "glory," "praise," "worship," "through Christ," "in Christ," "in my heart..."
The most modern approach to the question would be to say something like, "By focusing my mental eye on Christ and his life, I will be able to do whatever I need to do." Some would argue that "Things will just come around right" for people of faith, which is sort of a baptism of the power-of-positive-thinking.
Christ, Cliché, God, Shakespeare in Cliché 
