Dear Young Christian. I know it’s difficult. All the adults at church know that it is difficult, living in this era with its pressures to be this and that, to fit in here and to look good over there and do it all while coming to church and saying the words and praying and taking […]
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Most of us would have to confess that we really do not think that people get up in the morning planning to do evil in the world. Most of us, at least, can admit that it is really only broken people who are even capable of planning to do evil, and that the rest of […]
Tags : aspiration, Barabbas, boondoggle, Caiaphas, child abduction', evil, forgiveness, freedom, genocide, Germany, go along to get along, Green Center, Holocaust, humility, intentional evil, palm, Pilate, psychopaths, Sonoma State
This psalm is the source of my favorite Christmas Anthem ever. Period. The Alan Pote version, played up-tempo just a touch from where the sheet music has it. It has thunder and lightning, thrills and chills. It has grandeur and sweeps upwards and then dives to near silence. It is all that and a bag […]
Tags : ability, Alan Pote, bathsheba, Christ the King, david, freedom, George III, God is our Refuge, images, jeroboam, King, refuge, revolution, seminary, shepherd
I was reading the God Pause devotionals that are sent out by the esteemed seminary where some of America’s finest pastors are educated; Luther Seminary in St. Paul, MN, that Heaven must be a rollicking place what with all of the joy in the presence of the angels of God over one sinner who repents. […]
Tags : 1 Timothy, auctions, celebrate, celebration, conviction, dancing, devotional, freedom, God Pause, Law, lost, Luther Seminary, mercy, One big party, pastor, pastoral call, Pharisee, rust, salvation, tools, uncomfortable message, works righteousness
Debbie and I spent a couple of days over the weekend at a resort in Napa, close enough to not have to worry about anything in case of an emergency, far enough away to be , you know, not at home. Caitlyn was away on a trip and we thought it might be nice to […]
Tags : cost, debt, downsides, freedom, penalties, repercussions, rich, servants, summer camp, wealthy
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