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You need Jesus…and… – by Sarah Bessey
You need Jesus….. and circumcision. You need Jesus …. and baptism. You need Jesus … and the right voting record. You need Jesus … and natural family planning. You need Jesus … and modesty. You need Jesus … and an accountability partner. You need Jesus …
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A Radical Idea – by Ted Dekker
It’s time to let some thoughts die so that you can rise again. With one new thought, your life can radically change. Sound impossible? Well, it is until you learn to use that one thought. Maybe ‘thought’ is too narrow a word to describe the …
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Gun Control and Santa Barbara
In light of the recent terrorist attack in Santa Barbara I decided to write totally off topic. This is my gun control proposal. Simple, clear and direct. First of all, you need to know that I’m for the right to bear arms. (Loosely given to …
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Water to Wine – by Brian Zahnd
Ten years later it’s time to tell some of my story… I was halfway to ninety, midway through life, and I’d reached a full-blown crisis. Call it a garden variety mid-life crisis if you want, but it was something more than that. You might say …
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Why I Do What I Do
Our daughter asked me a couple months ago – once she saw all that we’re doing, “Dad why do you do all these things? Do you enjoy them?” It’s actually a really good question. Chris and I have been touring around the eastern part of …
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Jesus and Ileana- Brad Corrigan
Jesus & Ileana. I love these two names so much. One name means ‘Son of God’… and the other ‘God answers’. They’re also more than names to me. They’re the two most powerful stories in my life. I never knew Jesus, …
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Jesus and John the Baptist – by Conrad Gempf
You’re behind the mirror-glass window. There are only two guys in the line-up. They both look kind of foreign and have beards. They’re both wearing those bathrobe-things. The one on the left, holding a card with the number 1, is taller than number 2. Which …
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Weak is the New Strong – by Michael Hidalgo
Jesus was weak. At least according to the way we often think in terms of strength and weakness. Many believe might makes right. The one who is justified at the end of a debate, argument, or battle is the one who is able to silence …
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It is Time! – by Paul Young
There are many of us who believe that the center and source of all existence is a community of self-giving, other-centered love, where there is no hierarchy of power, no hierarchy of value and no hierarchy of respect. Even if you do not believe as many of us do, that Jesus is the incarnation of this self-giving, other-centered God, completing an intention from the beginning of space, time and matter to fully identify with us, you can still believe in the ‘Spirit’ of Jesus; the humility that embraces our common history as humanity, the openness to walking in the eyes of the ‘other’, the risks of searching together for better ways and understandings, the courage to suspend our judgments and prejudices while attacking the darkness that resides in our own hearts.
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World Vision. Duck Dynasty. Global Warming. Noah. Muslims. And, uh….Jesus.
Seems like a lot of folks are mad these days. Just check your Facebook and Twitter accounts if you haven’t noticed.
Growing up, I don’t remember any Christians being mad at anything. We weren’t engaged, and we were happy. Racial issues were for “those people in the South” to deal with. Issues of sexuality were never talked about. Women’s rights were an “interesting discussion” that some folks in New York City were having. And Al Gore hadn’t invented either the internet (so we could follow these bad things) or Global Warming.
Life was good!
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