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The foolishness of lacking compassion
The things I don’t get list just got a new number hit.
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Can we return to a prophetic center?
I am still in the midst of lament over the jury decision last Friday. The officer who killed Philando Castile was acquitted. There is a sense of mourning, of lament, in our community and it needs to be felt.
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The darkness and the dawn
When we think we’ve made it on our own, there are times the Lord may step back a bit and let us “revel” in our “self-made” achievements.
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What does the Lord require?
What the Lord “requires” of us is simple. We have complicated it.
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The deepest seat of our deepest emotions
When our “hearts” (which is our English way of describing an ancient concept of the “deepest seat of our deepest emotions”) belong to Christ, there is such wonderful, beautiful change. Paul describes it in Colossians 3:12-17. When Christ rules the deepest seat of my deepest emotions, anger is shoved away and love takes its place. Bitterness is crushed and compassion…
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Why bother with the Old Testament?
The God of the Old Testament is so mean. He’s violent. He’s vengeful. The “God I know” wouldn’t ever be that way. The “God I know” would be more like this: “I know that you are a merciful and compassionate God, very patient, full of faithful love, and willing not to destroy.” Yes, sir, give me the real “God I…
Tag: Mercy
