Category: Faith and Life
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The Gift of Struggle
Humans in western society have a natural aversion to struggle (as our cries to ‘get back to normal’ show clearly). But don’t be in a hurry to escape it!
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Who’s the Goat?
I would get within a hair’s breadth of defeating Bowser once and for all, before my game of Super Mario Brothers would freeze up. I don’t have to tell you how frustrating that is. Restarting my Nintendo Entertainment system, blowing the dust from the back of the cartridge and the console’s cartridge slot – nothing worked….
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The Kingdom Series: Jesus Ascending
Jesus wasn’t hitching a ride back to his home in the sky, or taking the escalator to the ‘upper floor’ – This was about ascending a throne.
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The Kingdom Series: Non-Violence and the Cross
When you try to separate Jesus’ crucifixion from his teachings on non-violence, you overlook a critical aspect of his death.
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The Kingdom Series: Good News!
Maybe we ought to rethink the ‘gospel’ we’re spreading – if for no other reason, because it doesn’t resemble the real good news that Jesus announced.
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The Kingdom Series: …Or Not Going to Hell
We shouldn’t reduce the Kingdom of God to a safe haven from the fires of hell. It’s so much bigger.
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The Kingdom Series: It’s Not About Going to Heaven…
Cracking open some cold ones by the Olympic-size pool at your heavenly mansion? Amen and amen! But we should be more invested in seeing heaven come to earth.
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Why do We Fear Death?
We don’t like to think or talk about death. We fear the unknown. But there is one who has gone ahead of us.
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Floods of Judgement?
Some see natural disasters as signs of God’s judgement. But that’s misunderstanding the God revealed in Jesus.
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Civil War?
Yeah, maybe Jim Bakker has completely lost the plot. Christians aren’t going to start a civil war. We’re already in a war – just not the one the Christian right thinks we’re in.