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Keep Calm. All has truly returned to normal.
Post election blues for many liberals. Post election exhaling for conservatives. A lot of inhaling for those in DC and Oregon who passed the legalization of recreational marijuana… Yes, life has returned to normal. Breathe deep. If you lost… give it two years. If you won… give it two years. In jest, I posted this on my Facebook page this morning: And…
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Thoughts on the political process
“Politics is the art of looking for trouble, finding it everywhere, diagnosing it incorrectly, and applying the wrong remedies.” —Groucho Marx “The Democrats are the party of government activism, the party that says government can make you richer, smarter, taller, and get the chickweed out of your lawn. Republicans are the party that says government doesn’t work, and then get…
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Vote. Yes. Vote!
Elections are about rich guys taking on other rich guys. It’s about a two-party system that controls just about everything and is incredibly unresponsive to people. They pay attention to LOBBYISTS, but they pretend to need us (the voters) for a short period of time. It’s rich guys bashing other rich guys for being… well… rich. It’s a lot of…
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The break up of Mars Hill
In just two weeks, Mars Hill went from a huge celebrity pastor and the model for multisite churches to… this. I am not writing this to gloat. I am writing this to ask us, as American Christians, to do something extraordinary… think. We’re not good at it. The huge “crisis” of my young ministry was the cultish following people gave to…
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How big is Africa?
When I went to Ethiopia last month, I was asked more than once if I was worried about Ebola. I knew Africa was a huge continent, but when someone described just HOW BIG it is… and it bigger than TEXAS if you can imagine that… I was blown away. Here is a visual I ran across:
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True crisis
We insist on panic in areas that don’t need it. Ebola in America, for instance. We have completely ignored the heavier issue of West Africa… but what is that to us? While we panic over a handful possibly contracting the virus, we continue to ignore larger issues. ISIS is still tearing through Syria and Iraq and is bent on destruction.…
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The Kingdoms of This World
I am still baffled by the news out of Houston, TX that the mayor wanted sermons subpoenaed from local churches! Allan Bevere hit it on this head with his post. There is a COST to following Christ and proclaiming the Gospel of Jesus Christ and we may begin to feel that pressure a bit here. At this point, it’s silliness.…
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Baffled in Houston
I am absolutely baffled by what is going on in Houston. The mayor wants to subpoena sermons? Here is one response. And in other news. There are still over 200,000 dead from civil war in Syria with over 9 million displaced. And while we mourn ANY loss from Ebola in the U.S., the death toll rises into the tens of…
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Elections are coming
I have no memory of when I was this NOT worked up about an election. Ever. I don’t know if that’s a good sign, or bad. I’ll vote. I’ll care. But everything is so predictable these days, it’s perfunctory.
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Why pay attention to ISIS and the Middle East?
Sometimes we can reason out the current Middle East situation with logic that says, “Let’s back away from the region and let them work it out… or battle it out.” What would be wrong with that? First of all, it’s incredibly difficult to say WHAT to do… but to do nothing has some scary consequences. It is not realizing the…
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