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Can God Love Somebody Like Me?

By on Saturday, November 16th, 2013 | No Comments

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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Question: “Who Gave You The Right…?”

By on Tuesday, November 12th, 2013 | 3 Comments

Here are some more “stupid questions” If you mated a bull dog and a shitsu, would it be called a bulls***? Why is Grape Nuts cereal called that, when it contains neither grapes, nor nuts? If Jimmy cracks corn and no one cares, why is there a song about him? Why is it called a […]

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Dumb, Silly, Foolish, Ridiculous Questions

By on Monday, November 11th, 2013 | 1 Comment

Many years ago, I started a collection of ” stupid questions.  It started when my son, Michael (now age 17) was just a little kid. I looked for a moment to the back seat of the car as we prepared to take a trip.  There he was, stretching as far as he could out of […]

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Video Post (Sermon): A Gospel for the Wacky

By on Tuesday, November 5th, 2013 | No Comments

 Luke 19:1-10 Jesus entered Jericho and was passing through. A man was there by the name of Zacchaeus; he was a chief tax collector and was wealthy. He wanted to see who Jesus was, but because he was short he could not see over the crowd. So he ran ahead and climbed a sycamore-fig tree […]

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God Invites You To Intimacy

By on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 | No Comments

In recent blog posts, I have told you about a young woman whom I met at a nearby bookstore.  She had a baby in a stroller and a mobile office.  She was managing her “Mary Kay” business from the bookstore coffee shop. Finding out I was a pastor, she announced:  “I do not believe in […]

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Ancient and Modern Reflections on Incarnation

By on Wednesday, October 30th, 2013 | No Comments

“We needed an Incarnate God, a God put to death, that we might live.  We were put to death together with Him, that we might be cleansed; we rose again with Him because we were put to death with Him; we were glorified with Him, because we rose again with Him,” Gregory Nazianzen, A Select […]

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Papa

By on Friday, October 25th, 2013 | 1 Comment

I got into a conversation with a young entrepreneurial mom at a local bookstore.  She spoke with me about some of the reasons she did not believe in God.  I think I surprised her by agreeing with her reasons for rejecting a belief in god – at least her concept of god.  Heck, I agree […]

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What Is God Like?

By on Thursday, October 24th, 2013 | 3 Comments

 This week I am exploring the question:  “What is God like?” or “What do you (I) believe about God?”  This conversation began because of a conversation I have with a young entrepreneurial “mom” who was running her business from the coffee shop of a nearby bookstore.  You can read the introductory blog post by clicking […]

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What Do You Believe About God?

By on Wednesday, October 23rd, 2013 | 3 Comments

I was in a local bookstore, recently.  It was chilly out, so I made use of a gift card to buy a cup of hot chocolate and peruse the magazine rack. I noticed a  young mom there.  She had a young baby in a carriage, a phone on the table in front of her.  In fact, she had […]

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J.B. Torrance’s Last Lecture

By on Tuesday, October 8th, 2013 | No Comments

 “J.B. Torrance’s last comments to his post graduate students in the last seminar that he did before he retired. He said, what we need is not a new doctrine or a clear doctrine of the Holy Spirit, we need the Holy Spirit. What we need is not a better Christology, what we need is Christ. […]

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