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Fearing Muslims?
Last Friday I began to see a link being passed around from an opinion piece on Charisma Magazine’s site. I didn’t have time to read it, but the reactions from it today are so strong, I went back to read it. The piece is no longer on Charisma’s site, but links can be found to cached sites and the “author’s”…
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There is a good side to fear and shame?
Why yes, yes there is. As an adjunct professor dealing with students who blow by assignments without getting them in and expecting me to take them anyway… or to say they loaded them up on the class site… and a week later “notice” it didn’t load up… YES there is a “good” side to fear and shame. We have coddled…
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Violence in Our World
The bombing in Boston has shaken us again. We will be on the lookout again for the perpetrators, and then we will ask, “WHY?” In our time, we are fixated on “WHY” as if we should somehow be exempt from problems. Somehow violence needs to be “over there” and not “here.” Violence is a part of the human condition. A…
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Two Great Words: Fear and Hate
It is incredibly interesting that two words we try to avoid and “correct” in our world are fear and hate. Yet, in the Bible, they are words that have a different meaning in a different context. 7 The fear of the Lord is the beginning of knowledge, but fools despise wisdom and instruction. (Prov. 1:7, NIV) 10 Let those who love the Lord hate evil, for he guards the lives of…
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