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Made This Way

No one should be surprised, though of course it makes no sense, when unbelievers complain about God’s judgment. Romans 1 tells us that they know God is, they know He is almighty, and they know they are in for it. … Continue reading

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A Higher Power

It is not a difficult thing to discern the nature of someone else’s god. Some people carry their religion on their sleeve, advertising their spiritual commitments on bumper stickers or t-shirts. You can tell the Amish by their clothing, even … Continue reading

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Getting Better All the Time?

History is littered with the inhuman. That is, when we seek to take an honest look at those who have gone before us, we find what we manage to think is something different from us. We look at Nazi Germany … Continue reading

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Be Still

The children of God are rather different from the children of men. We have been reborn by a sovereign God. They have not. We have been redeemed by a sovereign God. They have not. We are being remade by a … Continue reading

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We Will Sing an Old Song- Crying Out to Our Redeemer

Trouble comes to the people of God. If it is not here now, it will be here soon. Those who promise that the Christian life is a breezy walk through the meadow not only have not taken up their cross … Continue reading

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What Hath Jerusalem to do with Nineveh?

It’s a temptation I know all too well, that man-pleasing desire to have a reputation as someone not at all given to man-pleasing. The pathway there is pretty well worn, and pretty clearly marked. All you have to do is … Continue reading

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Pleasures At Your Right Hand

Samuel Taylor Coleridge’s Rime of the Ancient Mariner is the source of that ode to frustration, “Water, water everywhere nor any drop to drink.” Salt water is the cruelest trick, looking, sounding, even feeling like that which satisfies, when in … Continue reading

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Slacker Nation

It is a long standing standard of my top ten reads list, that potent tiny tome, The Abolition of Man by the incomparable C.S. Lewis. Here Lewis enters into a critique of postmodernism that is prescient, gracious, and devastating. Of … Continue reading

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Fear and Loathing in Eden

Paranoia, long before it became a psychological term, served as a fitting antonym for not just trust, peace, but love. We know this in part because the Apostle Paul, under the inspiration of the Spirit tells us in I Corinthians … Continue reading

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What If God Were One of Us?

  It is an old temptation, to construct images of Jesus out of celluloid. Christians have fought for it and against, and will likely do so for generations to come, until the next medium seeks to supplant the Word. We … Continue reading

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