Category Archives: kingdom

What’s the best decision you made in the last ten years?

Responding to a message. No doubt about it. A person I had never met came to me online for counsel during a difficult time. I offered what counsel I could over the course of a few years. Then I brought … Continue reading

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Meek and Mild? Smoldering Wicks and Cracking Whips

Jesus, like love, is something everyone wants to lay claim to. There is no organized coalition banded together by a hatred of love. So too there are precious few people who are willing to lay a charge at Jesus’ feet. … Continue reading

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Too Easily Distracted, Too Easily Satisfied

We live in a world where work gets done tomorrow. All deadlines must be flexible, negotiable in our day, lest we have no deadlines at all. Excellence has gone the way of the dodo. We are, in the words of … Continue reading

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These Are the Days of Our Lives; Another World

Dear Bob, What do you suppose that John means when he tells us, under the inspiration of the Holy Spirit “Do not love the world, or the things of the world. If anyone loves the world, the love of the … Continue reading

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The Reformation Doctrine of A Catholic Love

“I know I have to love him, but I don’t have to like him.” There’s something to this, well, rationalization. That is, it contains both truth and rationalization. Our call to love one another doesn’t mean we can’t have some … Continue reading

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Evangelizing, Amidst the Ruins, Our Barbarian Hordes

Our strategies are often rather far from God’s strategies. Indeed, the simple fact that we sit down to strategize may be a sure sign that we are far from God’s chosen path. We are plotters and planners, who believe that … Continue reading

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Stubborn Hearts: Biting the Hand That Feeds Us

You know the drill. Small child asks for eggs for breakfast, scrambled, with cheese. You happily prepare just that for the child. Said child sits for a bit looking at the eggs, then gets down from the table. You ask … Continue reading

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The Conquest of the New Promised Land, All the World

Most all of us, at one time or another, have found ourselves embarrassed by God. He Who has all perfections perfectly doesn’t always fit into our scheme of things. He doesn’t always do things the way we who are altogether … Continue reading

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What about the mega-church model of small group ministries?

I once worked in an office that was quite caught up in a then well-known book. The E-Myth was a business book, written by Michael Gerber. His thesis was that successful businesses are those that learn to franchise themselves, after … Continue reading

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War, War and WAR Until the Close of History

In the last seventy-five years the United States waged war in Korea, Viet Nam, Libya, Panama, Grenada, the former Yugoslavia, Somalia, Iraq, Afghanistan, and Iraq again. These are the ones I can think of off the top of my head. … Continue reading

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