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Set them free
23 Jesus traveled throughout the region of Galilee, teaching in the synagogues and announcing the Good News about the Kingdom. And he healed every kind of disease and illness. 24 News about him spread as far as Syria, and people soon began bringing to him all who were sick. And whatever their sickness or disease, or if they were demon possessed or…
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Tribalism and Truth
We have been Balkanizing the U.S. for quite some time. We truly want to hang out only with “our folks” no matter the place on the political spectrum. I miss the days before social media. Truly.
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Defining Christian Nationalism
This is me saying something about “Christian Nationalism” again. And I will keep doing so. Russell Moore in THIS INTERVIEW sums up why we need to keep raising the flag on this one: Your book delves into Christian nationalism as a component of the evangelical movement. How would you define Christian nationalism? And how has it affected evangelicalism in the…
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Away with fear
Fear drives politics. It raises money. It gets people turned toward an “enemy”… and then looking for “solutions.” This is not the way of the Kingdom of God.
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Learning what is CORE
“After the disruptions of the past few years, though, the primary critique of evangelical Christianity — from the outside world as well as from those of us who’ve found ourselves accidental exiles within the church — is not that evangelical Christianity believers and practices all these things, but that we don’t.” (Losing Our Religion, p. 20)
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My confession — times I just don’t pray well
In the past week we learned that a missions organization our church supports in a major way suffered a great tragedy. The organization is led “on the ground” in that nation by nationals. No Americans are in the country currently that are part of that mission. There is a reason. The country is completely falling apart and it’s down to…
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“Being righteous” is out… “FEELING righteous” is in
Founder of Fox News, Roger Ailes, famously said, “People don’t want to be informed; they want to feel informed.” Likewise, today’s culture warring evangelicals don’t want to be righteous; they want to feel righteous. And they will abundantly reward any politician, cable news personality, pastor, or pundit who supplies this feeling. Christian Nationalism, and its growing flock of political pigeons,…
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This is not how you play the game
I listened to Russell Moore’s latest book, Losing Our Religion, on Audible and needed to get the hard copy to go over again all he laid out. With Russell Moore and Beth Moore (no relation to each other) there are two journeys on a bigger scale… far bigger… than mine. Yet, their position in church life growing up was somewhat…
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Lone gunman? Hardly
Another mass shooting we “can’t do anything about.” Another racist motivation. But… another “lone gunman”? When are we going to wake up? A mass shooting in Jacksonville, FL over the weekend was again motivated by racial hatred. How do we know? The shooter left his manifestos before shooting up a Dollar General, killing three, and then turning the gun on…
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The further abuses of our false “national religion”
The Party of Trump… excuse me, the “Republican Party”… debate last week was only something that was worth watching clips that were entirely predictable. The sad scene of almost every candidate raising their hand to say they would potentially support a convicted felon who orchestrated an attempted coup if he were the party’s nominee in the general election was only…
