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Jesus Loves Me
Here’s a beautiful acoustic rendition of “Jesus Loves Me” by Pastor Stephen Whatley – with a surprise ending!
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Changing The World
“Changing the world sounds grand, until you consider how poorly we do even at changing our own little lives. On a daily basis we break our promises, indulge our addictions and rehearse old fantasies and grudges that even we know we’d be better off without. We have changed less about ourselves than we would like…
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Civil Yet Firm
I agree with Madeleine Albright on the importance of learning more about Islam (see The Mighty and the Almighty). From an individual Christian’s perspective, the challenge is how to remain committed to one’s faith without being discourteous or uncivil to another person’s faith, and yet remain firm on matters of honest disagreement and not compromise…
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Homer and Paul on Anger
Homer in The Iliad (Lattimore translation) has Achilleus setting aside his anger with these words: Still, we will let all this be a thing of the past, though it hurts us, and beat down by constraint the anger that rises inside us. Now I am making an end of my anger. It does not become…
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Podcasts Gone
Switchpod, which hosts my podcasts for free, seems to have signed off for good. That means many of the podcasts I’ve posted on this blog are gone, so don’t be surprised when you find many broken links while clicking on a song or sermon of mine. Anyway, I still have some of my songs and…
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Something Good
‘To get something you never had, you have to do something you never did.’ When God takes something from your grasp, He’s not punishing you, but merely opening your hands to receive something better. Concentrate on this sentence…. ‘The will of God will never take you where the Grace of God will not protect you.’…
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Back!
We had a great Easter Sunday yesterday. Pastor Wade Allen preached a heart searching sermon on what it means to know Christ and the power of his resurrection. Then, the church had breakfast together. Of course, I spent the holy week mostly reading: Eugene Peterson’s Christ Plays in Ten Thousand Places, Marilynne Robinson’s Gilead and…
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On Leave
No blogging for the next few days because of the National IBP Convention. Then, next week, we’ll be taking a much-needed vacation!
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Oshek
The Hebrew term for oppressing workers, oshek, means ‘taking advantage of a worker.’ The Bible generally assumed that workers were relatively powerless and easily intimidated. Oshek means not paying people what they deserve or not paying the going rate for a particular job or not paying someone on time. The Torah teaches, ‘You shall not…
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