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Fundamentalist: The Movement or the Adjective?
Do any of you that believe the Bible think you trace your lineage of faith back to the early 20th century? the early 16th century? the early 4th century? What about the early 1st century? I’m happy to trace my faith back to the Lord Jesus Christ and the Bible. I don’t believe in a […]
Extremists
In a recent interview about his film about the tragic terrorist murder of Israeli athletes during the 72 Munich Olympics, Steven Spielberg says, “It saddens me to see how narrow-minded and dogmatic some of the right-wing fundamentalists here in the USA are. . . .I do not claim to be providing a peace plan for […]
Where Sin Gets Defeated
When I was a kid, which I usually also add, “it wasn’t so long ago,” a comedian named Flip Wilson made famous the phrase, “The Devil made me do it.” The Devil maybe had something to do with it, but we know he didn’t make us, because sin originates in our own lusts. “[E]very man […]
Diminished Value and Shuffleboard Syndrome
I’ve noticed that I cry about birth and death and then things closely related. The happiness in the face of the mother with her newborn brings tears to my eyes. The death of someone, almost anyone, mists me up. When I think about someone’s death because of a lingering illness or risky surgery, my throat […]
The End Justifies the Means
While recuperating from battle wounds in 1521, a Spanish soldier named Ignatius Loyola dedicated his life to Roman Catholicism and the pope. In 1540, the pope gave Loyola approval to begin a new religious organization called the Society of Jesus, or Jesuits, as a part of the Counter-Reformation. They purposed to maintain and reclaim members […]
Spirituality
Owen Waters writes: “The frequency of your inner self’s consciousness exists within a frequency band which is higher than your outer self. When your conscious mind catches even a glimpse of that spiritual essence within you, it becomes excited by the higher frequency. Communicating with your inner self is, by definition, an exhilarating process.” Groovy. […]
We Really Did Know
You’ve seen those fake arrows that are meant to fool no one. They are not supposed to look like they are really sticking through someone’s head. They’re a joke. We really do know that they are fake. There are a lot of things that we are actually able to know. When we don’t, it is […]
Then and Now
From a distance, when we look at mountains, they merge into one another as if they really are one disconnected group. However, if we walked straight toward them, we most often find many miles separating them from each other. God expects us to see the future the same way. We know that because of how […]
Selective Sovereignty
In 1510, while teaching at the University of Wittenberg, Martin Luther visited Rome and was appalled by the corruption and worldliness he saw in the papal court. Do you have a problem with this? How could he judge worldliness? Isn’t that an external? What was he seeing that the “reformed” do not see today? People […]
Underrated
Some are going to take this as an opportunity for me to say something new and shocking, but right now I’m sticking with it. OK, here goes: I think homelessness is underrated. Stay with me. I mean it, at least for now. Where did I get this “crazy” idea? I was driving my son home […]
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