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like a sea without a shore

On 8 August, 2011 · Leave a Comment

There’s something about the ocean.

This past summer my parents took our family on a cruise, which is something we had never done. One of the things I realized on the trip was how much I love being at sea.

The gym was on one of the top decks, right at the front of the [...]

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400 years

On 29 March, 2011 · 2 Comments

If you turn the page in your Bible from Malachi to Matthew too quickly it’s easy to forget you’re passing roughly 400 years of history.

There is a long pause between the final words of the Hebrew Scripture and the beginning of the Christian New Testament. Most scholars mark this pause as a time when [...]

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three ways

On 17 March, 2011 · 6 Comments

We can cast everyone out who isn’t like us. If they believe something different about God, don’t believe, look different, smell bad…

Anything different warrants them being an outsider.

We can assimilate everyone until they look like us. Power-sell our theology – becoming so overbearing they eventually break down. Crush their arguments with [...]

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