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My revelife account
I am beginning the process of shutting down my revelife account and moving (back) to my xanga account. The username is the same. The type of content will be the same. If I am subscribed to you now, on my revelife acco… -
The faith of the centurion
When [Jesus] entered Capernaum, a centurion came to Him, pleading with Him, "Lord, my servant is lying at home paralyzed, in terrible agony!" "I will come and heal him," He told him. "Lord," the centurion replied, "I a… -
A fitting threesome
We are not so mad as to think that we shall create a world in which murder will not occur. We are fighting for a world in which murder will no longer be legal. - Albert Camus, novelist and philospher The only thing th… -
Reading lists - help me out.
I post a lot of reading lists. Only in the last couple of months, I have posted a Christian discipleship reading list, a Eugene Peterson reading list and a nonviolence reading list. Now, I would like your input. It's … -
Accountability and Israel - a word for a church
The Israeli enemy in its aggression has written its next chapter in the world which will have no place for them. They shelled everyone in Gaza. They shelled children and hospitals and mosques and in doing so, they gave u… -
Israel and Hamas
You know, it's very difficult to take any international call for Israel to cease hostilities seriously when rockets continue to fire from the Gaza strip into residential Israel. On the other hand, when the U.S. Govern… -
The golden rule is wrong
Or, to be more accurate, we get it wrong. We got this idea that Jesus' most central teaching was to love God with all your heart, mind, soul and strength, and to love your neighbor as yourself. That wasn't Jesus' centr… -
Which is cuter - the battle rages on.
Neither pandas nor koalas are true bears. Pandas are more closely related to raccoons, and koalas to kangaroos. But which one's cuter? Tell me that. -
Pray for peace/mocking God?
What is the use of postmarking our mail with exhortations to "pray for peace" and then spending billions of dollars on atomic submarines, thermonuclear weapons, and ballistic missiles? This, I would think, would certain… -
An old story
You see the strangest things when you go to a trendy bar and night club. The Shadow, in Wichita, KS, is such a trendy nightclub/bar. (Though behind all of the purple crepe of the walls, and drinks with foreign names, I… -
"We are living in the act of God"
On most Sundays I teach Sunday school for the middle- and high school students. Leading up to Christmas we looked at the Christmas story, and I'll be honest enough to say that I was bored out of my skull for most of it.… -
Telling the truth in sermons
What would it mean to preach truthfully today? Seldom do congregations hear sermons on dying. You’re going to die! Seldom are we told that and what it means to respond Christianly to that. Seldom are we told how Christi… -
After the funeral
A kid I know, named Michael, was buried today. He was thirteen when he died. He left behind a younger brother, an older sister, two parents and a close church community. Michael had received a hunting rifle as an ea… -
Is it truly a new year?
Is it really a new year? Or are we carrying so much of the past with us - like boxes of dirt from the old country - that we could build 2008 again, even here on this side of Jan. 1? I, for my part, intend not to. -… -
A lame excuse, I know
First, I was in Wichita all weekend, then return home to find the Internet not working. It still isn't, so I'm writing this in the student center at my old university home, Mid-America Christian University. If you've…
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My revelife account
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The faith of the centurion
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A fitting threesome
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