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The Way of Hope
We can’t elect our way into goodness.
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No one is left off of the “crazy train”
There is always something to tempt us into fear or anger. Always.
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O Come, Emmanuel
Move us from the pathetic to the prophetic. For your Kingdom, your glory, your great honor.
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The lack of lament
I am beginning a book by Soong-Chan Rah called Prophetic Lament: A Call for Justice in Troubled Times. It is a series by IVP that does biblical commentary within the application of current cultural commentary. This one is on Lamentations. His claim is we have no songs of lament in our American Christian culture. We are about victory and triumph.…
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Good bye “normal” church…
And, quite frankly, good riddance. I can hope, anyway. This post on the future of evangelicals is a good read. It’s refreshing. We are stumbling into new realities. These are things the greater evangelical church should have paid attention to decades ago, but the majority are only now being dragged kicking and screaming into the true reality of Kingdom living.…
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The tragedies we don’t bemoan
Two separate mass killings over the weekend… at least. No big details. We probably won’t have any “need” for follow up, but just a quick glance down my Yahoo news feed gave headlines of a shooting in Houston leaving 8 dead and a shooting in Vermont that left 4 dead. Twelve dead in just two separate incidents. And we probably…
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The church that is… and is to come
On a hike through a state park on Madeline Island (part of the Apostle Islands in Lake Superior) I took a couple of pictures where the Lord spoke specifically to me about the American Church and our spiritual condition. This blown down tree came from a huge wind storm in 1991. Winds reached 100 mph hour off Lake Superior and…
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The culture of LIFE
It’s is incredibly unfortunate that “pro-choice” people are now recycling a quote from Catholic nun Joan Chittister from back in 2004: “I do not believe that just because you’re opposed to abortion, that that makes you pro-life. In fact, I think in many cases, your morality is deeply lacking if all you want is a child born but not a…
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Our human arrogance
We treat God like HE is the One on trial. As skeptics, we come and demand something of God. We ASK of God. “If you’re such a ‘good God,’ why then…” But our arrogance is a problem. We forget something key: God has some questions for us. We just don’t like this impolite God, so we make one in our…
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God won’t fit your tiny theology
In all of our disagreements about “wedge issues,” we continually allow arguments to be reduced to sets of verses. If an argument can be reduced to particular verses, theology then fits on a bumper sticker. God, and what he is communicating through Scripture, is far more complex and beautiful than reducing theological arguments to a set of verses. We want…
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