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Some thoughts
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Exhausted
The last week has been exhausting.
After a long week doing documentary work in South Africa, we flew to Zambia and drove in to Malawi. The next morning we welcomed a team from Newfoundland that was here to visit the orphanage and help out. They've kept us running pretty much nonstop since then. They fly on to Tanzania tomorrow, and I can't say my ( Read more... ) -
Hey World…
I'm back! …sort of.
It's been a long, long time since I've written anything, and since then I've grown, matured and evolved in what I think and what I believe. It used to be that I had everything figured out, but I've come to find out that I barely know anything… and that's okay. I no longer have a burning need to feel like I have everything sorted ( Read more... ) -
Jesus is not a credit card.
He never asked us to accept Him.
He asked us to reject our old life and obey Him.
Where did we ever get the theology that He wants us to accept Him, pray a magic prayer and suddenly think we have a get-into-heaven free ticket?
We are justified not by faith alone, but by both faith AND obedience.
- James 2.18-24 [paraphrased]
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Formula.
It baffles me how we could ever come to the conclusion that something as mysterious and amazing as salvation could ever be boiled down to a formula, a three-step process, or a special prayer we prayed that one time. As if we have it all figured out. As if a magical prayer is all there is to it. As if salvation is dispensed from the heavenly vending ( Read more... ) -
Jesus vs. Government: round one.
dear fellow Believers ( Read more... ) -
seen on a photography forum
when I think of my wife I think 'point and shoot.'
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President Obama
Can God use a Democrat?
Or is His arm not long enough to work through someone who isn't a Republican?
Is He unable to turn the head of a ruler who isn't vehemently opposed to abortion?
Is He limited by the political opinions of the man in charge?
Or is He actually God?
I guess we'll find out. :-)
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suddenly?
what is it about Jesus and making things happen suddenly? maybe He just likes to see the stupidied looks on our faces when He surprises us out of the blue. I bet we look pretty funny... He probably gets a good chuckle.
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Kick in the pants
Behold, happy is the man whom God corrects. Therefore do not despise the chastening of the Almighty. For He bruises, but He binds up; He wounds, but His hands make whole.
Job 5.17-18
Now no chastening seems to be joyful for the present, but painful; nevertheless, afterward it yields the peaceable fruit of righteousness to those who have been trained ( Read more... )