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Sweet Tweets
I really like Twitter. Someone called it a “large, heavily populated metropolis, while Facebook is a favorite vacation spot and MySpace is a ghost town.” Evidently, yesterday 600,000 signed up in a...
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The Gospel That Jesus Preached
I’m really looking forward to Scot McKnight’s book, The King Jesus Gospel. I have been grievously burdened for some time about the gospel that is being peddled in the western church. Some have called...
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What Does He Require?
I’m reading Frances J. Roberts’ Dialogues With God. You should too. To whet your appetite, here’s a sampling: Thou shouldst have but one ambition – to love Me and to be near Me. Let Me take care of all...
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Do You Stand With Your Party Or The Gospel?
Paul Schneider, the first Protestant pastor murdered by the Nazis, refused to compromise and side with the Germans (Nazi Party). He is known for the quote, “there are no storm troopers in Heaven,”...
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The Truth Is Much More Eloquent
Preachers are notorious for fudging on details when giving an illustration, often to move the hearers to an emotional response. Take, for instance, this excerpt from a speech the British Prime...
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Editing Jesus
As a follow-up to yesterday’s post about adding to or taking away from the words of Jesus, I serve you this piece from Perry Noble’s website. Perry is the lead pastor of NewSpring Church in Anderson,...
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Uh-Oh. Here Come the Christians.*
The world doesn’t just need love. It needs a special kind of love. It needs the love of Jesus. And the only people on earth who can give it are His believers. I’m not using space here to say we...
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Mixed Emotions
I am reading a book. Actually, I am reading three different–no, four different–books at one time. This particular one…well, I will reserve my comments until the end. I will give it the same respect and...
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O Be Careful Little Heart What You Believe
Hey fellow believer, what do you say about the popular notion, there is nothing I can do that would make God love me any more or any less ? If I said that I believe that is a false statement, if only...
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Perils of a Praying Church
So you belong to a “praying church.” In our culture, that condenses into a formula of a having at least three prayers in the main worship hour – opening, offering and closing – plus a mid-week...
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Sleep Sweet In Jesus, Baby Boy
A month ago today our 24-year old son, Graham, closed his eyes on the brutal winter of his world and opened them in the eternal warmth of heaven. He died alone in a car on a cold, cold Minnesota...
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Gone…But Not Forever…
Graham, sharing with the millennials group in 2012. He was in a recovery program in Atlanta and in a ‘good place’ It’s fitting that before I could post this, my 9th (and presumably last) installment...
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Ironically, Grace
Photo by Joseph Pratana _______________________________ It’s a shame this is too long to tweet, but it’s too good to keep to myself: “When I thought God was hard, I found it easy to sin; but when I...
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IT’S STILL TRUE
When we are invited into the “fellowship of His sufferings” and the “gospel of weakness” is preached to our soul and makes us its convert, and, like Job, we are left with hanging hands, questioning...
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The Courage of a Young Lion
Watercolor artwork by Dylan Pierce (another one of my young lions!) __________________ Over the past few years I’ve featured a “lion’s share” segment on my blog, providing a platform for the ‘young...
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