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Category Archives: On the way to Sunday’s sermon
A Life That Can Stand Up To Anything
In the Sermon on the Mount Jesus offers you a life that an stand up to anything. But how can we choose when just trying to figure out what is real is so hard and divide even in basic questions … Continue reading
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Was Obama your enemy? Is Trump? Jesus says “love our enemy”. Dare you?
When Consumerism Meets the Totalitarian Culture War Does your brand of phone or clothing or hotel express whether you are part of the blue tribe or red tribe? Why would Air BNB spend probably 5 million dollars on their superbowl … Continue reading
The Invasion of Righteousness that never fits with the culture war labels of this world
The Myth of Christian Moral Guidance The title of that Time piece was of course click-bate for me. The author goes on to make a point that should be obvious to most of us. Before the election, for instance, Pope Francis … Continue reading
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Blessed are the Unfortunates for Even They are not Safe from the Invasion of God
The Sermon on the Mount read by Virgin Eyes In the 1980s Virginia Stem Owens, a professor of English literature decided to have her students read the Sermon on the Mount in her classroom at Texas A&M. The response surprised … Continue reading
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Repentance, Galilee, the Miracles and the Abandoned Nets
Praying for a Miracle Most of the things people ask me to pray about, and most of the things I pray for are miracles. We don’t look at them that way. We don’t talk about them that way, but that … Continue reading
How the Great Diver Shatters our Coma of Distraction
New Years People often ask me where I get my links and stories I share in sermons or on Facebook. One of my sources is an app called Pocket. Pocket is a way for people to quickly store articles they … Continue reading
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The Specific Pleasure of the Inferior
The Spiritual Crisis of the Modern Economy The Atlantic had an excellent piece this week about the crisis of white, working class America this week. Over the last couple of years the crisis in the “flyover” states has gotten more and … Continue reading
Joseph’s Sacrificial Fatherhood and a Dream greater than any Visa can secure
The PBS NewsHour series “Brief but Spectacular” portrays Jacqueline Novogratz with her micro-lending development work. The interview begins this way. JACQUELINE NOVOGRATZ, Founder and CEO, Acumen: When I was six years old, my first grade nun, Sister Mary Theophane, beat it … Continue reading
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Why all our efforts at self-rescue and security fall short, and how the frustrating Son of Man brings peace
Ghost Ship Fire in Oakland On December 2 fire broke out in a warehouse that had been used an artist collective in Oakland CA. There was an unpermitted concert event in the building happening at the time as well as … Continue reading
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The Lost Beauty if its time, The Haunting of eternity in our hearts, and the anticipation of glory reclaimed, renewed and restored
Celebrity Deaths in a Celebrity Species End of this year commemorations will include George Michael, Carrie Fischer and Fischer’s mother Debbie Reynolds. Many will profess that their deaths, even though they didn’t have a face to face relationship with these … Continue reading →