Category: Humanity
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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: 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: A Cosmic Joke
When they crucified Jesus, the powers-that-be thought they’d seen off one more would-be Messiah. Instead they got punked by God’s unconventional game plan.
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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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What’s Your Identity?
If Paul wrote us a letter, he might remind us that, in Jesus, there are no more Americans and Mexicans, Westerners and Middle Easterners, Republican and Democrat, citizen and immigrant…but would we listen?
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And Who is My Neighbour?
The legal expert asked the question, but he wasn’t thrilled with Jesus’s answer. His response to the “Who is my neighbour?” question might make us uncomfortable too.
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Are We ‘Christians’ or Disciples?
We shouldn’t be all that surprised that what we call ‘Christian’ has little to do with genuine discipleship in the New Testament sense.
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Help Me Out: Why do We Deny Climate Change?
‘Subduing the earth’? Opposing a ‘left-wing’ issue? Believing scientists are stupid? Why do we resist the idea of climate change?