The Story of Cain and Able has fascinated me for years. I realize many people believe all of the Bible is literally true. A more reasonable approach is to believe the Bible provides us with truth with many different kinds of writing. The fancy seminary word for this is “genre.” The Bible does have some […]
The Story of David and Goliath is one of everyone’s favorite. I Samuel Chapter 17 contains the exciting account of David’s battle with the Philistine Giant Goliath. While some of the more fantastic stories of the Bible calls us to stretch our imagination and/or our credibility, the events described in the story of David and
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Introduction Christian Sacrifice is not a word we hear much these days. Mores the pity. Instead, we seem to be in a world consumed with Narcissism. We insist the world adjust itself to us and become angry at our neighbors when it doesn’t. If we are Christians we might want to give the idea of
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This is a post about. Am I my brother’s keeper: Looking at the Christian attitude towards others. In my mind I keep a collection of quasi doctrine of a generalized cultural Christianity. What these ideas have in common is they are wrong. Top of the list is the familiar saying: God helps those who help
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Don’t Worry Don’t worry is difficult to do. I found a piece of wisdom years ago in a book on Grace. Sadly, I don’t remember the title or author. Yet the wisdom remains, don’t worry. The idea is that one of our major challenges in life is what we do with the uneasy feeling
. This year on my birthday the Lord gave me a wonderful gift, a Birthday Blessing. Someone found me on Facebook. Back in the early 1980s for a brief time (I don’t even remember how long) my wife and I took in a teenage boy in our parish. One day he just up and left. We
This is a story about the Freedom of Forgiveness it begins in the middle; in September of 1984. My wife, Lily, and I were attending the first Inter-Faith Coastal Healing Seminar in Ogunquit, Maine, as ministers of music. During the first break on-the opening day of the conference we took a brief walk along The
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