He tears apart church settings and pastors who have compromised their faith, but then rips into people for not going to church.

Matt Walsh would probably tell me that that 40% bothered me because I am not truly a believer; I am blinded by sin and cannot see that his words are all true. Homeschooling is a very viable option, board games instead of TV, house churches instead of traditional churches, something, anything, to give people an option. Worm Theology comes from a line in a hymn by Isaac Watts; "Would he devote that sacred head for such a worm as I. And I felt for a long time that my embrace of the Christian life was cheap and false precisely because it was so desperate.The lives that American "Christians" lead aren't much different from those of their atheist neighbors, and their knowledge of theology isn't much better either. It hurts to read of my own flaws and failures in his pages and to see where I have been found lacking. Or, when he compares getting into heaven to climbing a mountain, adding that it doesn’t matter how far we’ve climbed, but only that we start the journey and do the best we can (p.

To adopt any part of the world’s view on the question of homosexual marriage or homosexual acts, you simply have to deny, implicitly or explicitly, the truth and authority of Christianity. If I can't win with Christian media, and I can't win with secular media, then what is the point of deciding between the two? Secular media, Christian media, going to church, not going to church, public school, private school, so forth and so on .This isn’t actually sound biblical doctrine but rather different heresies that make us feel good or “fit in” with the world. My depression is not God's will for me; I will not accept Matt telling me that the times I am not depressed are the problem.

The world is full of weak, pitiful sinners like myself, people just looking for a way around our duties and obligations.

As I do not normally expect that from literature, I was not left unsatisfied, but others may feel it weighs to heavily on the side of exposure. A little too detailed for me to stomach, but there is some necessity in acknowledging the depravity that so permeates this world. I don’t pray all that much, I spend my time thinking about anything but God, I think I’m becoming a better Christian because I read posts on r/catholicmemes when I’m taking a dump. They leave disappointed because they find anything but Christianity within this “great Christian nation”.