Monday, October 30, 2006

Why? redux

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As I continue my journey into the imponderables of the Christian life, I ran into another thing that we as Christians do almost reflexively....
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Saturday, October 28, 2006

Grave Robbing

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One of my favorite movie scenes is in " Monty Python and the Holy Grail " The plague comes to town and a man goes through the vil...
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Friday, October 27, 2006

Update

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Previously I mentioned that pretty teachers who have sex with students don't have to go to jail, a la Debra LaFave. She is the stunnin...
Thursday, October 26, 2006

Jesus is All I Need

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When Caedmon's Call released their " Share The Well " CD, it caught me as I was preparing for my first mission trip to Guatema...
Wednesday, October 25, 2006

Why?

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Why do we do what we do? Have we really sat and thought about the reasons why we do stuff? Especially church stuff? A theology class I am ...
Thursday, October 19, 2006

The apocalypse

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In a previous post I mentioned that the Detroit Tigers were in first place, which was causing a cosmic disturbance of epic proportions. Fo...
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Tuesday, October 17, 2006

Humility

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Do you ever have one of those "God Moments" that just humbles you to your core? One of those times when a truth is spectacularly ...
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Monday, October 09, 2006

Miracles and Wonders

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In Paul Simon's masterful Graceland album, there is a song called "Boy in the Bubble" that describes the world 20 years later....

Follow-up

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Check out this article on Finding God's will from the most recent issue of Holiness Today , published by the Church of the Nazarene. I...
Wednesday, September 20, 2006

Will

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What is God's will for our lives? Is it something written before our birth that if we deviate from we will live a life of misery? It i...
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Wednesday, September 13, 2006

Evil

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The Bible uses the word EVIL more than 400 times. But what is evil? From a narcissistic point of view it is bad things that happen to us. ...
Friday, September 08, 2006

This is wretched

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Isaiah had it right in Chapter 5, verse 20: Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darknes...
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Tuesday, September 05, 2006

Crikey

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Sadly, we mark the death of one of my daughter's favorite TV personalities, Steve Irwin, aka The Crocodile Hunter . While I was not a f...
Tuesday, August 22, 2006

Contentment

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Phillippians 4:11 I am not saying this because I am in need, for I have learned to be content whatever the circumstances. 12 I know what it...
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Sunday, August 20, 2006

A Big Day

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Saturday, August 20, was a memorable one for our household. Bandit, our 7 month-old puppy, decided to make his bid for freedom around 1 p.m...
Thursday, August 10, 2006

Here we go again

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What is it about blowing up airplanes that thrills Muslim terrorists so much? Five years after 9/11/2001, the shoe bomber and countless oth...
Wednesday, August 09, 2006

Too much time on their hands

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Isn't New Jersey the state the shut down it's government over a budget impasse? This may explain why. If the state legislature h...
Tuesday, August 08, 2006

Broken things

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I was driving down M-50 toward church on Sunday and saw a big maple tree that had lost one of it's main branches. The site where the br...
Tuesday, August 01, 2006

The Banquet

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I just finished watching Antwone Fisher , a touching story of a young man trying to find his family and his place in the world. Denzel Wash...
Monday, July 17, 2006

Serving

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One of the best lessons in service I learned was from a foreman in a foundry I worked in for a few summers. One year I was the fill-in jani...