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There was a time that I lived in Colorado Springs, and I worked with my church’s Cadet Ministry. There were some cadets that didn’t feel spiritually fulfilled with the chapel services on base. So, I would pick them up on Sunday mornings and take them to my church. At this time freshmen and sophomores weren’t…
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There is something interesting about the kanji (Japanese symbols) for Judo. The first symbol, Ju, which we translate in English as “gentle” is of a tree with bamboo poles pushing on the limbs to force them to grow in a specific direction. Even today, if you walk in urban areas of Japan, you will see…
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What is faith? To the non-religious it is the complete abandonment of logic, reason, evidence, and science. In short, it is blind and unthinking. Let’s consider the field of physics. In classical times the universe was seen as split into two realms, the terrestrial and the celestial. In Aristotelian physics, the observations of these two…
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I’ve never really cared for most of the explanations or analogies used for the Father, Son and Holy Spirit being three and one. We’ve all heard the analogy of one triangle but three sides, and how water can be steam, liquid and ice. I never liked any of these. But then I was sitting in…
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There is an inconsistency in Matthew’s Gospel when compared to Mark and Luke. It is one of those “contradictions” that sceptics like to use to cast doubt on the validity of the Gospels. To be honest, it is one I’ve struggled to find an explanation, even though it is a minor point. I’m referring to…
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Like all people, I struggle with sin. In fact, a particular sin. I’m sure there are lots of others in the same situation. There is some sin that seems to consume them, and they go to God begging him in prayer to remove this desire to sin from their lives. They will even push the…
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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…