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For Freedom Christ Set Us Free
July 15th, 2010
Two dead theologians and two living atheists debate free will….at least in my most recent blog book.
Let me explain. Tonight I’m teaching on Galatians 5:1 at the campus church: “For freedom Christ has set us free; stand firm therefore, and do not submit again to a yoke of slavery.”
The topics tackled within these twenty [...]
Back to the Future
July 11th, 2010
One Twitter aficionado recently pointed out that the future date used in Back to the Future was 2010. I missed that detail when I watched Michael J. Fox in the SciFi comedy years ago. Their prediction of flying cars was certainly off mark. Hopefully we will get those sometime in the next decade [...]
Exceeding Love
July 2nd, 2010
The following is an excerpt from a John Milton poem:
O more exceeding love or law more just?
Just law indeed, but more exceeding love!
For we by rightfull doom remediles
Were lost in death, till he that dwelt above
High thron’d in secret bliss, for us frail dust
Emptied his glory, ev’n to nakednes;
And that great Cov’nant which we still [...]
Ode to Dog Vomit
June 30th, 2010
Proverbs teaches us that words fitly spoken are like apples of gold in settings of silver. I’m not sure how this beautiful categorization relates to the eleventh verse of Proverbs 26:
“As a dog returns to its vomit, so a fool repeats his folly.”
(Proverbs 26:11)
Gold and silver are precious commodities used to commemorate achievements and [...]
Punctuated Intervention
June 28th, 2010
Why do bad things happen to good people?
This is a perennial philosophical question that requires answers from every person in every generation. It is often answered with hollow rhetoric from isolated and insulated academicians. There is little comfort in religious jargon when one encounters personal loss and grief. Like a toothache, there [...]