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Deep and Very Warm Spirituality
During my first year of graduate school, while intern pastoring a church, I took the young people to a previously scheduled event, and the moment I walked in the door, I knew I didn’t want to be there. Then the first song sung had the lyrics, “There’s a sweet, sweet spirit in this place.” I […]
Imagined Monsters
I’ve never been able to buy into big foot or the loch ness monster. If you do–more power to you. I won’t publically ridicule you….only smirk privately. I also don’t believe a space ship rests in Roswell, New Mexico. On the other hand, I do think snakes and spiders conspire against me while I am […]
Population Explosion
When former VP Al Gore warned about population explosion, maybe we didn’t know what he meant. Making the front page of news stories this week was a USToday article that started with these words: “The United States faces a severe worker shortage in the near future.” The same day, Mark Steyn writes this paragraph in […]
Is That a Chihuahua?
Genuine vinyl? How many naugas did you have to kill for that naugahyde? I heard about a man who bought what looked like a real Polo shirt in Hong Kong at an amazingly low price, and after one washing, the horse turned into a chihuahua. Fakes. After all is said and done, no one will […]
The Left Wing Legalist
“Isn’t that legalistic?” “They took away my desire for God with their over emphasis on externals.” These are either outright lies or people deceived. Legalism is either works salvation or works sanctification. Someone attempts to rack up merit points with God by his own efforts. One should not assume, however, that someone with many and […]
The Evolutionist Science Fair
You either are in the midst of a science fair project in your home or you remember one. Parents, excuse me, young people are presently scurrying to find their projects for their kids, scratch that, for their fair. I just want to be nice, so I’m going to give you one evolutionist science fair project. […]
Completing the Prescription
This will interest you greatly. I had a virus this holiday season. I did not take an antibiotic. Yes, I know antibiotics are not for viruses. My immune system weakened, I caught a sinus infection. I did take an antibiotic. Both my mother and my mother-in-law informed my wife that I should take all of […]
Armor?
What’s the point of armor? For sure, it makes for an interesting Bible lesson, especially for juniors, because often the little boys like the whole medieval knight thing. You could probably use up a few weeks of Sunday School doing that. I’m going to guess that you don’t think that this is a major purpose […]
Convenient Use of Scripture
Most people don’t have this verse memorized, but let’s give it a shot. “These be thy gods, O Israel, which brought thee up out of the land of Egypt.” You give up? OK. Exodus 32:4. It seems that it was Aaron and others that said these words after having completed the task of forming a […]
Just Due It
I have noticed how much happier I am when I render due benevolence. Have you rendered lately? Part of proper rendering is understanding what is due benevolence, with the emphasis on due. Wives need treatment very different than the nature of the man. Sometimes I haven’t understood it. After all, she is from Venus, right? […]
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