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Deep sorrow in our world
This past weekend brought compound tragedy into our world. The earthquake in Haiti, the fall of Afghanistan to the Taliban, the ongoing spike in COVID… It has been sorrow on a magnified scale. How do I pray? One great help to me over the past few weeks is to pray the Great Litany regularly. It is a helpful prayer that…
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Quick observations on Exodus
I heard a preacher say (probably more than one preacher): Moses spent 40 years thinking he was somebody; 40 years knowing he was nobody; and 40 years discovering what God can do with a nobody.
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Words matter
I will say this plainly: the derisive use of “CRT” and “woke” among (mostly) white male evangelical/fundamentalist leaders and “authorities” is the 2021 version of the “N” word in the 1960s. Words matter. HOW we use those words matter.
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Our serious lack of discipleship in one picture
For every category of Christianity, it is the vast MINORITY who see their allegiance as a Christian as more important than being American. This is the great failure of discipleship in American Christianity.
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Mark Driscoll, Jordan Peterson, and masculinity
…in our efforts to define what it means to be a Christian man, we shouldn’t center our efforts on “masculinity” at all, but rather on understanding a person—a person who, “though he was in the form of God, did not count equality with God a thing to be grasped, but emptied himself, by taking the form of a servant, being…
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Deconstructing and Reconstructing
To be fair, I haven’t had the kind of crisis of faith I’ve watched so many others undergo. But I’ve certainly had to step back and examine honestly where I’ve been complacent — or even complicit — in enabling others who have abused their power in the name of the Lord. It’s a process in which I’m still engaged. And,…
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We need to see a HOLY vision
“All of us, if we only knew it, are on a hunt for the holy, for a life that cannot be reduced to the way we look or what we do or what others think of us.” — The Jesus Way: A Conversation on the Ways That Jesus Is the Way by Eugene H. Peterson https://a.co/3YDbolv
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The issue of “publishing”
I’m learning more and more about Kickstarter, Substack, Patreon, etc. It’s a fascinating avenue for writers and artists.
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Living in Babylon — The Wrap Up
Sources I referred to in the podcast: The Rise and Fall of Mars Hill Jesus and John Wayne Podcast Series The Holy Post Podcast BOOKS: Surprised by Hope Jesus and John Wayne The Way Up is Down Might From the Margins
