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Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’
I like this . . . This is a quote I ran across while researching a completely different topic. Still, I felt it an appropriate word of caution, especially given our socio-political climate today....
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Video post ~ Splendor of the Sun (via NASA and Walter Bright)
I thought this was a very intriguing video recently posted via NASA by Walter Bright on his blogsite “Where Are You . . . Where Are You Going?” As I was watching, all these metaphors and descriptions...
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Further Thoughts on “Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin”
Further thoughts based on my post “Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’” posted here . . . In a discussion the other day with a group of fellow believers, the phrase came up, “love the sinner and hate the sin”....
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Monday Rewind ~ How to Piss Off a Christian [Let Me Count the Ways]
[Here's a second look at a post I first published on 11/19/2012] 2.3 million hits when you Google “How to piss off a Christian”; and my humble little post from May 2012 is number #2 (no pun intended ....
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A Whole New Can o’ Worms Based on “Hate the Sin”
There’s been a lot of good dialog over the past few weeks based off of a couple posts I ran entitled, “Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’”, and “Further Thoughts on ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’”. One person...
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Having a DiscipleShift
As some of you may know, I attend and volunteer at our church here in Post Falls, Idaho, called Real Life Ministries pastored by Jim Putman. Recently, I attended a lunchtime meeting as part of Real...
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Do As I Say . . .
Every morning in my email, I get a daily scripture verse sent to me and several others within our church family, from a friend and former home group member. Today’s verse seemed apropos for some of...
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Photo Friday ~ One Can’t Read the Bible . . .
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Forging a New Path, Photography, Questions on Faith Tagged: belief, photography, questioning, spirituality, theology
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Of Acceptance, Tolerance, and Drinking Goat’s Blood Out of a Beer Hat
I read a blog post this morning that included the following nugget: “I get a little leary of people who say, “Yeah I was attending this church but the pastor said this one thing, so I left.” I mean...
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Where Has Your Head Been At Lately!!??
I get ideas for blog posts in many forms: A scripture passage will strike me a certain way; a fellow blogger will write something; or even a comment within a post that triggers a thought of my own....
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Why I Wrote on “Hypergrace” (another repost from Thom Rainer)
Love it, hate it, criticize it, ignore it…but these types of perceptions of Christians are out there. And they are as prevalent and growing as the amount of attendance to churches is shrinking and...
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Dealing With Why Bad Things Happen, Even to Good People
This is an excerpt from an upcoming book I’m involved with from Pastor Sam Moore titled “Restart:Getting Your Life Back on Track After a Setback”. I’d like to get some thoughts on the content… Why me?...
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Why Intelligent People Are Less Likely to be Religious
I thought this was an excellent article from Jordan Monge in Christianity Today’s online platform: My story is almost always met with surprise: How could an atheist convert to Christianity at Harvard,...
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What the Master Mechanic Taught Me of Unity
It seems everything I read lately of a spiritual/scriptural nature has to do with “unity”. Romans 12: 3 For by the grace given to me I say to everyone among you not to think of himself more highly than...
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Thoughts on Belief, From Unbelievers: He Who Has Ears To Hear, Let Him Hear
I follow several blogs on the internetosphere (it’s a word, look it up…no, don’t, it’s really not and you’ll likely just break Google) Through my random wanderings I’ve run across several comments...
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Photo Friday: Theology is Not the Goal
Filed under: Forging a New Path, Photography, Questions on Faith Tagged: belief, faith, photography, theology
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Photo Friday: The Devil Says…
Filed under: Countering (and encountering) Spiritual Drift, Faith & Spiritual Drift, Photography Tagged: belief, photography, theology
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Photo Friday: What Of It?
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Grace and Spiritual Drift, Photography Tagged: photography, spirituality, theology
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I’m Curious: What Does the Term “Not Biblical” Mean To You?
This isn’t a blog post so much as an honest inquiry to get some feedback from my readers, and maybe create a dialog in the process. When someone says that something, whether written, spoken, or...
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Dude! Why So Negative??!
I had some very interesting responses to my “I’m Curious” question last Wednesday: “What Does the Term ‘Not Biblical’ Mean To You?” (click here to join the fun) But one overarching sentiment cast its...
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