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Learning to weep with those weep
I will never have the whole Middle East thing figured out. (That will disappoint many conservative friends… and that’s just the way it is.) My heart breaks with the news I hear, the posts I read from missionaries, the posts I read from the churches in those areas. Rather than identify with those suffering, we are far too quick to…
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The place of knowing God
“He made know his ways to Moses, his deeds to the people of Israel.” (Ps. 103:7, NIV) The saying goes something like this: There are three types of people in this world: those who make things happen, those who watch things happen, and those who wonder what happened. This verse in Psalm 103 is a similar comparison. When God made…
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The Lesson of the Underwear
These are days when I am fascinated by English translations and wish I knew Hebrew. (And I know at least TWO comments I will get on that statement alone.) Jeremiah is part of our Lenten reading and the symbolic things Jeremiah had to do were… um… interesting. This one from Jeremiah 13 is really interesting. First, the “polite” version: This is what…
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Israel, Palestine, and an Effort Toward a True Pro-Life Ethic
I began some thoughts on what it means to have a “pro-life” ethic (HERE), and on that same day the United Nations voted to allow provisional recognition of Palestine as a “state.” This came over the loud objections of the United States and Israel. This is a perfect areas to try and hash out a true “pro-life” ethic. It’s a…
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