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Living in Babylon — the test of love
Every week in worship we are reminded of what is at the core of following Christ: to love the Lord our God with all our heart, soul, mind, and strength. To love our neighbor as ourself.
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The greater fool
I love the old show “The Newsroom.” It is about journalism and people who want to do good journalism, and often fail badly at it. They still try. They still risk. It’s a favorite show I love rewatching from time to Tim. At the end of season one is an episode called The Greater Fool. It’s explained a bit in…
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Living in Babylon — the allegiance test
Daniel 3 focuses on Hananiah, Mishael, and Azariah. The test is still a good example for us in our days of “living in Babylon.” It is the allegiance test.
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Living in Babylon
It’s been awhile since I’ve visited this topic in any form. I find myself reading through Daniel in my Daily Office reading and I am preparing a sermon on Daniel 2 now. The thoughts of this topic I began to truly dive into back in 2017-2018 are flooding back in. We’re still in a Babylon of our own making. I…
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The “good ol’ days” myth
“Remembrance of things past is not necessarily the remembrance of things as they were.”—Marcel Proust Here is the thing about pining for the “good ol’ days”:
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Keeping sanity in another crazy election cycle
Up until about 7-8 years ago I was eternal optimist. There were simple things I still believed in and could still hold in tension the flaws and blunders of life and people. That was almost squeezed out of me completely. And still, here we are in another election cycle that will probably prove to be more insane than the previous…
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Taking the way of power
Recently I heard a phrase: “The religious right has become the post-Christian right.” This is something that is possible beyond politics in America. James gives this warning:
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Post-Christian America
It was in the late 1980s when I read some of Charles Colson’s books on the turning of American “spirituality” into what he called (along with others) “post-Christian” America. What I appreciated about Colson at the time was I didn’t get a sense of hand ringing, but a path to how we shall live as believers in that environment.
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Pressing prayers… but more
Esau McCaulley has some powerful words we should heed: I believe in the power of prayer. But the Christian response can’t be limited to it. That assumes that all activity on behalf of the innocent lies in the hands of the almighty when the Christian Scriptures themselves suggest that God will judge us according to how we treat the most…
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