Walking Through Fire
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It’s too bad in a way that we can’t ignore the context of texts like Isaiah the way the literalists do. But we can’t.
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It’s a Big Book
In spite of what Hollywood would have us think, the “Book of Life” doesn’t leave anyone out.
Continue readingCreating the Backstory
Our connection to Theos/God empowers us to overcome any obstacle, to rise to any challenge.
Continue readingLove With All We’ve Got
All of the rhetoric around our faith is like chaff on wheat. Useful for a time, but eventually we have to thrash it off if we want to make bread.
Continue readingBlessing In Action
I will bless the LORD at all times; his praise shall continually be in my mouth.
Continue readingALL Together Now
See, I am going to bring them from the land of the north, and gather them from the farthest parts of the earth, among them the blind and the lame, those with child and those in labour, together; a great company, they shall return here.
Continue readingWho You Callin’ Good?
… a man asked, ‘Good Teacher, … Jesus said ‘Why do you call me good? No one is good but God alone’.Mark draws a clear distinction between Jesus and God.
Continue readingZeus-god
The gods of the Greek and Roman pantheon were very much like the “God” depicted in Job. They were subject to the same emotions as human beings; the same anger, the same vanity, the same jealousy. And they dispensed prosperity and calamity on humanity on the same sort of whim as “God” does with Job
Continue readingStumbling Forward
However imperfect our witness to faith and obedience to Jesus Christ, we still stumble forward into the 21st century, for God is with us. Rev. John Shearman
Continue readingA Harvest of Peace
The human tendency to focus on our superficial differences instead of our fundamental commonality is what enables violence, oppression, and exploitation, whether of individuals, groups, or the world around us.
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