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Thursday, October 31, 2013

Giving and forgiving: the heart of Christianity

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A book that's been rocking my world is Free of Charge: Giving and Forgiving in a Culture Stripped of Grace by the Croatian theologian...
Monday, October 14, 2013

An average weekend

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The Weekend Gun Report for October 11-13 makes for grim reading. But so did last weekend's report, and the one before that and the one ...
Tuesday, October 8, 2013

Hearing God in the mass media age

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The following is a quote from Wheaton College professor Read Mercer Schuchardt, from a chapel talk "God Does Not Post to YouTube."...
Friday, September 20, 2013

Confounding them like Jesus did

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In Center Church pastor Tim Keller writes about missional churches that confound the traditional categories of "conservative" or ...
Wednesday, September 18, 2013

Fidelity

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I once heard John Piper say that in forty-some years of marriage he had never been attracted to a woman other than his wife. I remember thi...
Wednesday, September 11, 2013

Good words on worship

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The Presbyterian church where I serve as an elder is in the middle of a spirited conversation on worship. Issues include how long the servic...
Tuesday, September 3, 2013

A prophetic word from inside Syria

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Like many I'm skeptical of the wisdom of taking military action against what is undoubtedly a barbaric regime in Syria. For one thing, i...
Friday, August 16, 2013

A new film from Werner Herzog "From One Second To The Next"

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The German filmmaker Werner Herzog has fashioned some of the most fascinatingly bizarre movies in history. From a documentary about a man wh...
Wednesday, August 14, 2013

Terrence Malick's Beatific Vision cont'd

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Last night I finally had a chance to watch Malick's latest movie To the Wonder  (2012). If you're not a fan of Malick's frag...
Friday, August 9, 2013

A further note on prayer (Gregory of Nyssa)

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Gregory of Nyssa was one of the 4th century Cappadocian Fathers -- so called because they came from the region of Asia Minor called Cappad...
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