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This weekend I saw the movie “The Blindside.” The movie is the true story of a family that takes in a poor black teenager from the projects in Memphis that eventually becomes a professional football player. It’s a fantastic story that is deeply moving. It is a story that should be told. And yet I … Continue reading
For a long while I remember wondering what all the stuff about Jews and Gentiles was really in the Bible for. I’ll be honest, it never seemed all that relevant to me. There were a number of things that came into play in the whole “debate” : whether Gentiles had to be circumcised, whether Gentiles … Continue reading
One of the more unknown details of the Bible is the fact that no one other than Jesus ever heals blindness. Neither Old Testament prophets nor the apostles in the New Testament do so. Sick people are made well, lame people walk, dead people are even raised from the dead, but no one ever makes … Continue reading
One of my favorite book series’, and accompanying movie series’, is the Lord of the Rings trilogy. Tolkien’s rich story has much to say and offers a wealth of spiritual principles (though some have taken the story and tried to spiritualize some of it in a way Tolkien never intended). One of my favorite parts … Continue reading
People often struggle understanding the proper relationship of faith and works in the Christian life. Often times people will find themselves at one extreme or the other, living out a works based salvation, or showing relatively no concern at all for living out one’s faith through faithful obedience to the commands of Jesus, thinking that … Continue reading
I have to come to realize that obedience is simply not a part of most our spiritual paradigm here in America. We come to church, I think, with the intention of hearing from God, of being engaged by the message, even being wowed by something new and fresh. But few of us walk out the … Continue reading
Let’s get right to the point: the more I read the Bible the more I see a glaring omission from western Christianity. And that omission is prayer. Unfortunately this omission is not present only among the theologically hollow evangelical mainstream, but most of the theologically sound, biblically faithful segment as well. A great many authors … Continue reading
The word mystery has become increasingly popular in the church today. This is primarily due to the postmodern rejection of modernity’s arrogant claim to be able to discern truth objectively through scientific progress and advancement. Postmodernity is far more honest and humble. We can’t really know truth, at least not one all encompassing absolute truth. … Continue reading
On a number of occasions I have heard someone asked the question, “Is there anything that would cause you to walk away from Christianity?” To this they replied, “No. There is nothing that would ever cause me to walk away from my faith.” (Typically this is followed by some sort of comment about having had … Continue reading
What in the world does that even mean? It sounds pretty technical, but in reality it is rather simple. A polytheist is someone who worships more than one god. And functional speaks of how someone actually functions and lives, not simply what they profess with their mouth. Hence the question is, are we people who … Continue reading
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