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Christ Is Not a Middle Class American
The title is the grab line. This is another persistent heartache of mine. With few exceptions, everywhere I go seeking Christian fellowship, I keep running into the false Christ of the Middle Class. Not entirely wrong, because the Christ of … Continue reading
Monster Church Madness
Spiritual success has almost no correlation to the size of the church organization. Put the First Church of Jerusalem in historical context. Two major items arise. One, this takes place in the one setting where the nature of “church” is … Continue reading
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Tagged government, oppression, propaganda, scripture
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Christians, We Need to Talk
This world, and everything in it, does not matter. I refuse to surrender my mission. Every time I open my mouth to discuss things from the Bible, I keep stumbling over this same, damnable heresy. Sometimes it’s quite conscious, but … Continue reading
A Christian Psychology of Loss
To Christian men: I have been crucified with Christ. It is no longer I who live, but Christ lives in me. The life I now live in the flesh, I live by faith in the Son of God, who loved … Continue reading
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Tagged mysticism, psychology, scripture
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Libertarian Hell
(Note: I’m under the weather with a fever right now, so writing is kind of tough.) Libertarian philosophy completely ignores the Fall. I’m all for letting people do what they want, so long as it hurts no one but themselves. … Continue reading
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Tagged civilization, culture, economics, propaganda, scripture
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Emerging Liberalism
The so-called Postmodern cultural influence is simply another brand of progressivism with no particular goal at all. To be postmodern is grabbing at any excuse to attack conventional thinking. There is a masquerade of logic. When they bother, postmodernists claim … Continue reading
Our Mysticism Is Not As Their Mysticism
Mysticism includes a whole range of things, not simply the practice of Transcendental Meditation. There will always be movements within a larger whole of any demographic. The mere existence of a thing which can be labeled “a demographic” requires acknowledging … Continue reading
More Implications of the Fall
Inherent in the parabolic language of Scripture is the flexibility to cover lots of territory with the same narrative. A picture replaces a thousand words, but only if those words are reduced to clinical descriptions. If you are trying to … Continue reading
Hard Headed or Hard Hearted
The Bible differentiates between commitment and meanness. We call someone a hard-head if they tend not to listen to advice, or even to learn from the evidence which beats them upside the head. They aren’t evil, just don’t appear to … Continue reading
Bible Line Friday
Challenge me! Post in the comments Bible text questions, difficult passages, questions about passages or internal conflicts, etc. This post will remain open to comments for as long as they keep appearing.