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6 mins read|03/24/18God’s telling a joke. And after we’re done laughing at this silly divinity, we realize that the true joke is on us.
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11 mins read|09/14/17There’s something very attractive about both the cross-ladder and the cross-crutches. In fact, there’s something about both of them that the woodworker within us finds eminently more appealing than the simple cross of Jesus.
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9 mins read|06/01/17This coming Sunday churches around the world will celebrate the big, splashy day of Pentecost. As well they should.
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9 mins read|05/15/17Some form of the Rule of Benedict will not save or reinvigorate the church. The church already has what the church needs to do her work in the world: she has the Gospel.
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9 mins read|03/13/17In other words, they had too much religion and not enough Yahweh. Or, to put it in New Testament terms, they worked so hard at being religious that they put Jesus out of work.
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9 mins read|11/30/16If the devil took over a church, I suspect it would be bursting at the seams every Sunday, with smiling faces, clean noses, straight morals, conservative voting, institutional fidelity
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11 mins read|08/12/16We want to know how God rules this world, how he is present in all things, how he exerts his control over the course of world events. We want to know why some get cancer and some don’t, why terrible things happen to the best of people, why volcanoes erupt and hurricanes strike and fires consume.
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12 mins read|07/19/16The Christian faith makes a bold claim: We are the world's problem, but we are not the world's solution.
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12 mins read|07/14/16We treat the Scriptures as if they’re our literary property to toy with as we please.
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9 mins read|07/05/16Being a Christian is hard because it’s easy.
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8 mins read|03/01/16We spend the first nine months of our lives in utter darkness. There are no tiny fluorescent bulbs beaming from the ceiling of the womb, no fetal flashlights, not even a pinprick of illumination.
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8 mins read|02/17/16Really, once you’ve heard and believed the Gospel, the goal now is to learn more and more about the law of God, so that you can mature into a commandment-keeping, law-loving, obedient disciple of Jesus. Right?
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