Cultural Exegesis (44)
  1. News of Kilmer's death hit me like a freight train because his Doc Holliday stirred something in me about friendship—both the earthly kind and the divine.
  2. Devoid of the gospel of Jesus’s death and resurrection, sufferers are left to frantically run the halls of self-salvation, turning this way and that but never getting anywhere.
  3. You cannot sever the saint from the sinner. Christians remain both simultaneously.
  4. While Christmas may or may not have pagan roots, it will certainly have a pagan future if Christians lose sight of what it is all about.
  5. In Scripture, laments are raw expressions of grief, but they always point to hope. What if our culture’s obsession with holiday lights is an unconscious way of crying out, “We need good news, and we need it now”?
  6. We love hearing about Jesus, but we also love hearing about how much effort we need to exert to truly pull off this whole “Christian life” thing.
  7. What does professional wrestling and preaching have in common?
  8. We still think we can sort own own problems with more money, more education, more resources, more techniques, more, more, more.
  9. Tolkien's hero Tom Bombadil functions to showcase the Gospel
  10. No plot spoilers here just some really Good News
  11. Prior sees much of evangelicalism’s imaginary trouble arising from the fact that it emphasizes quick and dramatic conversion experiences and a personally directed relationship with God.
  12. Even if the numbers are bad, the news about Jesus crucified for sinners and raised to new life hasn’t become any less good.
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