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Archive for the Random Thoughts Category


Am I a Liberal?

Am I a liberal?    I’ve been called a liberal by many people – family, colleagues, critics, and detractors.    Am I a liberal?   For this posting, I want to avoid addressing this topic from a “political” perspective – i.e. am I a democrat, who did I voted for in the last election, what […]

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What is Freedom?

  If there is one virtue in our nation, which we all would readily applaud, it would probably be freedom.  We would no doubt have some disagreements over certain social issues, taxes, the national defense, and whether McDonald’s or Wendy’s has the best cheeseburgers, but we would all probably agree that freedom is good.   […]

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Take Your Foot Off The Brake

Having a cool car during your college career is a great bonus to your social life – at least it was for me. When I arrived at Stetson University in 1981 during my freshman year, I was driving a 1973 Chevy Nova.  I don’t know if it officially fell into the “muscle car” category, but […]

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Can God Love Somebody Like Me?

In the last several post, we have explored the challenging questions Jesus face from the Pharisees, Scribes, and Sadducees – all recorded in Luke 20.  “Who gave you the authority to do what you are doing?”  “Is it lawful to pay taxes to Caesar?”  “If a man marries a woman and dies, and his six […]

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Thomas Merton On Stuff

 If what most people take for granted were really true — if all you needed to be happy was to grab everything and see everything and investigate every experience and then talk about it — I should have been a very happy person, a spiritual millionaire, from the cradle even until now … What a […]

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Rightly Dividing The Word – Trinitarian Theology

There are lots of conversation around scriptural interpretation that “start” or “end” with the statement “rightly dividing the word of truth.”  In other words, you need to interpret it correctly.  Typically (not always) those who yell that statement the loudest are those most likely guilty of NOT “rightly dividing” the scripture.  Rather they are allowing […]

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A Visit From The Christ Child (a poem)

In 1822, Clement Clarke Moore wrote the poem, originally called “A Visit from St. Nicholas.”   In many American homes is it read on Christmas Eve.   It begins ‘Twas the night before Christmas’ and redefined the image of St. Nicholas, the patron saint of children, who had never before been associated with a sleigh or reindeers! […]

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I’m Just Saying…I Cannot Meet Your Spiritual Need

“I’m just sayin…” Every pastor has heard it. I imagine that most every church leader (teacher, musician, deacon, elder, etc.) has also heard it. “Your church is NOT meeting my spiritual needs!” OR maybe you have heard this… “Your church IS meeting my spiritual needs!” If we hear the second statement, we are so excited. […]

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We always are talking AT one another

Psychologist Jean Piaget says that when two very young children talk to each other, they do so in monologue. Put another way, they each respond to the fact that the other child has spoken, but not to what the other child has actually said. Could it be that we have never actually grown up? Take […]

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Quick Quote: Christianity is NOT a Moral Code of Conduct according to C.S. Lewis

I think all Christians would agree with me if I said that though Christianity seems at first to be all about morality, all about duties and rules and guilt and virtue, yet it leads you on, out of all that, into something beyond. One has a glimpse of a country where they do not talk […]

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