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Being Martha
What does it mean that we are so eager to slip on the persona of Martha? Why are we so eager to come to her defense?
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Compassion
The physical nature of the Compassionate Samaritan story can reveal a deep-rooted internal struggle in all of us.
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Smart Ass
By now you no doubt have seen the video of the Vice President of the United States calling the manager of a yogurt shop a smart ass. If you haven’t, click here. Don’t read the article yet, just watch the video. Imagine that you’re in Mr. Biden’s shoes for a minute. You are constantly assaulted…
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Theology as dialogue
I talk back to my TV. I don’t do it regularly. I also don’t expect my TV to respond. I don’t expect the actors in my favorite shows to stop, mid-script, turn their heads toward me, and respond to my comments or anything. But, from time-to-time, I need to respond. Two shows seem to draw…
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Section 2: Judgment–Tearing Down Mansions
This is the second of a tw0-part series covering David Rudel’s Who Really Goes To Hell?—The Gospel You’ve Never Heard. Rudel looks at how Scripture (The Bible) and our understanding of GOD’s purpose and of Jesus (The Gospel) intersect and where they diverge. My introduction can be found here and Section 1 is here. In…
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8 Things the church could learn about itself from the NFL Draft
I love the NFL Draft. Anyone that has been around me in March and April over the last few years knows that I get pumped for this crazy ritual. I record the whole thing, try to follow along and keep track of where players go. I get into the lives of these guys and what…
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Saturday
I played around with the idea of leaving a blank post. Get it? Absence…I decided that doing that would be perhaps a little too cryptic/existentialist. Yesterday we dealt with one of the problems of Good Friday, the day God died. The day we remember the tragedy and triumph of Jesus’s death by crucifixion. This happens…