Tuesday, January 13th, 2009
From page 182 of When People Are Big And God Is Small by Ed Welch:
Scott Peck, in his best-selling book, The Road Less Traveled, suggests that we can shape other people into host organisms. It is not a pretty picture: people are the intestine, we are the worm.
"I do ...
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Friday, July 11th, 2008
Often, my flesh thinks it needs 2 things to be happy:
Everyone else to stop sinning in ways that annoy me, inconvenience me, or make me feel like I need to rebuke them or tell them to stop.
Everyone else to focus on making me happy, meeting my needs, fixing my problems.
Simple ...
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Tuesday, December 25th, 2007
There have been huge reactions and counter reactions over the years to the "Americanization" of Christmas. Commercialism abounds as we teach our children and ourselves that Christmas is about presents. "Happy Holidays" and "Seasons Greetings" are wished to us by friends, family, coworkers, TV and Radio shows, websites, ...
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Sunday, December 23rd, 2007
I was talking to one of my pastors the other day. He just took over preaching at the evening service at Black Rock a few months ago. It seems one of his big themes is that we're supposed to be "fighting evil" (and yes, he did use the word "superheroes" ...
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