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I have been contemplating God and His grace. Most people think He was very exact with the law He gave Moses and was completely lacking in grace because of what we see as the harshness of the penalties. As a result, we think His grace is new thing introduced only through Christ, but we are…
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I remember looking at various photographs from the Holocaust. In the pictures it wasn’t the victims that caught my eye but the guards. They didn’t look like monsters, but like normal people. People who would play ball with their sons or take their spouses to a restaurant for an evening. They looked like normal people,…
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What kind of Messiah where the Jews of First Century Judea and Galilee looking for? Reading the gospels, it is apparent that there were three types of Messiah they wanted, depending on the group. The common man was looking for a caring Messiah who would feed them and care for them. They were the ones…
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The Big Kahuna is a 1999 movie starring Danny DeVito and Kevin Spacey. It’s not really a very good of a movie. It’s about three salesmen at a convention trying to land a major account, and they refer to him as the Big Kahuna, thus the name of the movie. They can never find the…
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There are several friends who assume I’m a Trump man, but I’m really not. Trump was far from my first choice in 2016. As a matter of fact, when there were about fifteen candidates for the GOP nomination, Trump was at best my seventeenth choice. However, I did vote for Trump because I didn’t see…
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The ancient Greeks had several words for love. The four most common ones were: storge for the love family members have for one another, eros for the romantic and sexual love spouses would have for one another, philia for the love of friends and comrades, and there was agape which was the ultimate love where…
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We pray and pray and pray, but God doesn’t seem to answer. We wonder why this is so? After all Jesus told us, “Seek and you will find, knock and the door will be opened.” And yet, our prayers go unanswered. And we wonder why. I think James, the brother of the Lord, had the…
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Righteous men will from time-to-time sin. They might have even blinded themselves to their sin and are completely oblivious to their crimes. But if you go to them quietly and respectfully the will often weep at their weakness, beg forgiveness and thank you for your concern and love. That won’t happen with a sinful man.…
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I recently read the book You Are What You Love by James A. K. Smith. Like so many of the Christian books today it is fairly redundant. He often makes a point and then has the tendency to over emphasize the point. More than once he would take five pages to say again what he…
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In the previous post I laid out the case how the segregation of the chosen few by Nazism and Communism invariably led to mass murder. Some will want to point out that the setting aside (or sanctification) of the chosen few is also an aspect of religion, such as Christianity. Which is true. They would…
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I was watching a video of Jordan Peterson where he said that the “Hammer and Sickle” of Communism should be as reviled as the “Swastika” of Nazism. The moderator of the discussion pointed out that although most current college students agree that Communism has killed over 100 million people (compared to the 12 million of…
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I just recently binged watched the Amazon series Fallout. It was an enjoyable show, but don’t analyze it too deeply. It does have some major plot holes, but the characters were good, and the story never dragged. What really caught my attention was something said in the fifth episode. In it, Lucy, the main protagonist…
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