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Living Under A Merciful God
In the past few years, both when teaching and writing, I have frequently been challenged by persons who feel that I am going soft on part of the Christian message.
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Be Brave, Admit Your Sinfulness
Several years ago, after concluding a confession within which she had admitted to some rather serious things, a lady asked me: “What would you call those things? My neuroses? My
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Crying Out For Real Community
Some years ago, I clipped a letter out of a magazine. A lady was explaining why she had trouble accepting the Christian faith. She wrote: “Do not talk to me
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Community – Our Greatest Need
(First of a two-part series) I grew up in a church which was concerned with apologetics. We were forever worried about making ourselves credible. A lot of effort went into
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Pentecost: A Need For Our Lives
We go through life struggling. This is true for everyone. We all live with inferiorities, dashed dreams, and deep frustrations. Because of this we tend to grow jealous. We begin
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Restless Hearts Yearn For God
We are fired into life by a madness that comes from our incompleteness. We awake to life tense, aching, erotic, full of sex and restlessness. This dis-ease is, singularly, the
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Slow The Rat Race, Take A Rest
There is a story told of a traveling merchant who overloaded his wagon, one day, to the point where his horses could no longer pull it. Frustrated, he scrutinized his
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Midwifery – A Christian Vocation
Jim Wallis, the founder of Sojourners, in his Easter message this year, remarked that the resurrection of Christ calls us to be midwives of hope. That’s a metaphor worth reflecting
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The Cross As Unconditional Love
The cross of Christ is like a well-cut diamond. Turn it in the sun and you get a variety of colors and sparkles. Among other things, it brings out the
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Tales Of Two Earthy Saints
I rarely look to biographies of the rich and famous for my inspiration. Normally this is hagiography of the worst kind, the culture’s version of the lives of the saints.