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The Failure of Pastoral Care
In my rebuke against most churches, one thing seems increasingly common: an utter lack of genuine pastoral involvement in broken lives. Let’s peel back the layers here. On the one hand, Scripture assumes a church stands to replace the lost … Continue reading
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God Is Not a Fundamentalist
Sometimes I wonder at how this is so easy to find and how everyone strives so hard to ignore it and keep others from finding it. Really, it’s not that hard. Indeed, the issue isn’t so much one of how … Continue reading
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Arrogance of the Times
And with many other words he earnestly testified and exhorted, saying, “Be saved from this perverse generation.” (Acts 2:40 MKJV) Peter understood all too well. During that first sermon on the streets of Jerusalem after Pentecost, he warned his fellow … Continue reading
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Guys, Put Your Mission First
The truth of moral justice does not have to make sense, but we are required to make sense of it. The issue of what a man can call his mission from God is covered elsewhere on this blog. What matters … Continue reading
Ruth 4
Boaz was a prominent man in his own right. Few would hesitate if he hailed them publicly, particularly at this festive time of year. Whatever passed for their court system in those days was the matter of family elders doing … Continue reading
Sampling Non-Western Christianity
HuffPo has a good one on some of the huge mistakes missionaries made with American Natives. Even today, most mission-sending agencies don’t deal with cultural distinctions well. Often, everything that does not fit into Euro-American ideas of “Christian culture” is … Continue reading
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Ruth 3
In the Hebrew language and culture, context is everything. Boaz was a near kinsman. He did as much for Naomi and Ruth as he could at the time, but he was a busy man. The story would make little sense … Continue reading
Repost: Aristotle Defeats Aristotle (Long)
(Reposted, with some minor editing, from another blog which no longer exists.) We can use Aristotle’s own logic to show how it is incompatible to Christian faith. The fundamental question here is bound up in that fancy word, “epistemology.” You … Continue reading
We Aren't Taught
More human sorrow comes from bad teaching than almost any other failure of mankind. We aren’t taught our perceptions can fail us when we need them most. Instead, we are taught there is some hope we can rise by our … Continue reading
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Ruth — Intro and Chapter 1
Introduction The story of Ruth is an exceptional example of Hebrew literature, almost certainly written during King David’s reign. The primary purpose was to document David’s pedigree. The story takes place perhaps a century after the Conquest, which offers difficulties … Continue reading