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Strange Bedfellows: Understanding My Enemy’s Enemy

All is not actually fair in love and war. And the enemy of my enemy is likely not to be a trustworthy ally. Some years ago I had the occasion to speak to a group of pro-lifers on ministering outside … Continue reading

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Why is there such a divide in the church on racial issues?

Most of the time when men of good will disagree it stems from competing strategies. We agree on where we want to go. We disagree about how to get there. In this instance, however, while we surely agree where we … Continue reading

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Three World Wars and the Peace Who Ends Them

Context is everything. The broadest context of our lives is the same as the context for everyone’s life, from the first advent of the first Adam to the last advent of the last Adam. All of our lives take place … Continue reading

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I’m Just a Sinner In a Rock and Roll Band

It is shocking to me that someone else’s sin seems to shock us. I can only surmise that our shock is the fruit of not having a very clear idea of ourselves. I’ve often suggested that so many of us … Continue reading

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Owning, and Owned By the Pearl of Great Price

There may well be many of them, but perhaps not as many as you might think. Most of the knowledge I was blessed to receive from my Father became melded together with the rest of it. I was blessed to … Continue reading

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Let It Not Be Named Once Among You As Becomes Saints

A given culture’s depravity isn’t measured simply by the percentage of Christians in that culture. Vital to the equation are two other factors. First, and most important, is how spiritually mature those Christians are. Corinth remained a sewer not because … Continue reading

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Days of Whine and Roses: Hustling Downward

With the recent passing of Pete Rose we are once again debating the merits of whether he should be in the baseball Hall of Fame. He was, by all accounts, one of the greatest to ever play the game. He … Continue reading

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Love Your Grammar: Death of Culture in the Death of Language

Grammers defiantly not easy getting it right. Know what I mean? Of course you know what I mean. So what difference does it make that I didn’t begin “Grammar’s definitely not easy to get right?” Aren’t grammar nerds, you know, … Continue reading

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The Work of the Ministry and the Ministry of Work

I give thanks for my seminary education. All that time and energy devoted to studying the Scriptures revealed, among many other things, that the Bible says not the first word about seminary. It does, however, tell us a thing or … Continue reading

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Living in a World Gone Mad: Lovers of Death

Sometimes the Bible says things with such simple clarity that it shakes us from our slumbers. Evil’s presence has numbed us, making us miss the obvious. We believe, for instance, that we do not have an established religion in our … Continue reading

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