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Are there not days when the news is so overwhelming it just knocks the very wind out of you? It’s not the silly matters of Lindsay Lohan or Paris Hilton. It’s not the antics of some athlete. The news, for whatever reason, will seem to take up the cause of some missing child or woman. This time it was from…
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This is a tiny picture, but it is to illustrate my continuing struggle to incorporate the TNIV in my life and ministry. What I need to do is just struggle with the TNIV “squared” Bible (picture) because it has wide margins and just have the ESV to check out from time to time. I tried to use the ESV because…
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This is a tiny picture, but it is to illustrate my continuing struggle to incorporate the TNIV in my life and ministry. What I need to do is just struggle with the TNIV “squared” Bible (picture) because it has wide margins and just have the ESV to check out from time to time. I tried to use the ESV because…
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A question on politics, which is a dangerous subject… Yesterday in a Bible study an analogy was being given that dealt with the branches of government. It got me thinking. The analogy was the Legislative Branch writes the law. It’s up to the Executive Branch to enforce the law. Let me make this abundantly clear right here: I support my…
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Why Christianity DOES work… Christianity works because JESUS works. It is not us. Yet, there is the combination of us and the Spirit of God. As Dallas Willard would say: “Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning.” The life of God is powerful. It is most powerful when we will choose to be apprentices to Jesus.…
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Why Christianity DOES work… Christianity works because JESUS works. It is not us. Yet, there is the combination of us and the Spirit of God. As Dallas Willard would say: “Grace is not opposed to effort. It is opposed to earning.” The life of God is powerful. It is most powerful when we will choose to be apprentices to Jesus.…
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Why Christianity does not work… Bear with me on this. Too often we are quick to read the first couple of paragraphs and jump to our own conclusions. That’s why journalism teaches journalists to put pertinent information up front, or at least the information you want the readers to grab, up front. They know our attention span is short! I…
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What IS the deal with Kansas? Several years ago there was a book entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas? Of course it was a liberal who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Kansas City who had not been there in years wondering what had happened to his dim memory of some “populist” state. His claim is this suburb was…
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What IS the deal with Kansas? Several years ago there was a book entitled, What’s the Matter with Kansas? Of course it was a liberal who grew up in a wealthy suburb of Kansas City who had not been there in years wondering what had happened to his dim memory of some “populist” state. His claim is this suburb was…
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Some things just should not surprise me, I suppose, but they do. Maybe I will never get over the shock and move to numbing reality. I hope not. One of my part-time gigs is teaching NT History and Literature, along with another course, at a Christian college. Part of the grading for the semester was for each student to read…
