Category Archives: 10 Commandments

Immortal Horrors or Everlasting Splendors: Missing Life’s Drama

How prone we are to miss the drama. The tyranny of the urgent, the plainness of our patterns, and our propensity to look inward rather than outward all push us to regard our callings, our surroundings, and our souls as … Continue reading

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Sacred Marriage- Woman at the Well; Tasting the Scandal Du Jour

Adultery, Backstabbing and Socialism, oh my. Today’s podcast brings old truths of grace face to face, or heel to head with the old “news” of sin. Grace wins, because Jesus Changes Everything. Be a good egg and listen in. Then … Continue reading

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The Scarlet D: Peter, Past Failures and Reputations

Nobody likes disloyalty. Whether one is a heroic lawman hunting down mafioso or a dastardly mafioso evading a heroic lawman, disloyalty sours the stomach. Incompetence is a frustration. Arrogance is an annoyance. Disloyalty, however, reveals a selfishness, a cravenness so … Continue reading

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Everybody Loves Jesus: Everybody Despises His Word

Everybody loves Jesus. Marxists love Jesus, because He was such a radical revolutionary. Unitarians love Jesus, because He befriended the social outcasts. Liberals love Jesus because, well, because He was liberal. Even some conservatives love Jesus, because He was so … Continue reading

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Two Cheers for Suburbia: God’s Image in the Serpent’s Seed

We are what we cheer. Which is one of the many things that ought to concern us. Consider, for a moment, the literary world. We honor, in terms of the modern canon, Anna Karenina, Madame Bovary, Hedda Gabler. We villainize, … Continue reading

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The Single Soul of the Five Solas of the Reformation

That so few are puzzled deeply by the paradox puzzles me. We are so used to the befuddling language that we miss its befuddling nature. It ought to stop us in our tracks and arrest our attention, like those signs … Continue reading

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YOLT- You Only Live Twice: The Life to Come

Though I’m not the first to do so, I’ve long argued that the mark of maturity is to delay gratification. Dave Ramsey puts it this way, first, you live like no one else. That is, you pay off all debts, … Continue reading

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Sacred Marriage, Mary; Lawson & Gossip; 70s Packaging

This week’s Jesus Changes Everything Podcast

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Is there anything wrong with drums and guitars in church?

I am frankly astonished that the worship wars rattle on. The army of praise choruses, light shows and worship bands have left the Psalms, the organ, and our father’s hymnal decimated. The conflict, as with most conflicts, was utterly unnecessary. … Continue reading

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The Smell of Death Surrounds Us: Savorless Salt

When we are yet outside the kingdom, before we’re born again, we suppress the truth in unrighteousness (Romans 1). Romans 1 isn’t saying we are stupid. It says we are foolish. We know what we know but because such knowledge … Continue reading

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