Category Archives: Devotional

“When Does It Stop?” When It Stops.

Posted on February 6, 2018 by

Originally posted on Wrestling With God:
Today on Facebook, a friend of my uncle’s asked him, in all (apparent) seriousness: “So what, a statue comes down, that person was a racist, they don’t deserve to be memorialized. But what next?…

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Trump Flag

Posted on August 28, 2017 by

  Today is Monday, August 28, 2017. The scheduled end of the Trump presidency is 3 years and 4 months away. A lot can happen in that time, and few things can be predicted.. For example, Joe Arpaio was recently pardoned … Continue reading →

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Perfect Bible? Perfect Jesus? How about John’s Perfect Love?

Posted on July 19, 2017 by

A Reader named David made this comment recently. Wrong again, Rob.  God never said “Jesus alone is the perfect” in I Cor 13.  This is a modern addition/perversion of His word.  The original Greek says “that which is the perfect thing’.  … Continue reading →

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“Why Should I Let You Into Heaven?”

Posted on June 30, 2017 by

(Reposted from 2011 under a new title by Ron Goetz) My sister was born with brain damage. The umbilical cord was wrapped around her neck. The doctors waited 24 hours before deciding to perform an emergency C-section. This was fifty-two years ago, before … Continue reading →

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Got It

Posted on January 20, 2017 by
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Durban Muse

Posted on January 14, 2017 by

  My Facebook friend Nicky took this picture from the porch of her home in Durban, South Africa, and posted it. I think she posts one every day, but I don’t know for certain. I’m not on FB regularly.   There’s a beach, of course, … Continue reading →

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Hating Sin: A Motive for Ministry?

Posted on January 5, 2017 by
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Loyalty: Spider’s Web, Titanic, or Original Design?

Posted on May 8, 2016 by

It took the Mormons and the Southern Baptists over a century to forsake much (but certainly not all) of their institutional racism. In rigid, authoritarian institutions, it takes multiple generations to sever the strands of the web. Many are bound … Continue reading →

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The Fullness of God in Christ is God’s People Themselves

Posted on May 24, 2014 by

As we read in 2 Corinthians 12:4, Paul believed he had heard something in heaven that he was forbidden to repeat.  Yet Paul was unable to keep this surpassing revelation a total secret.  The unutterable truth he heard comes out … Continue reading →

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“Things that No One is Permitted to Tell.”

Posted on May 22, 2014 by

Things Forbidden to Repeat Paul describes an experience of being caught up into Paradise and hearing things that he was convinced that human beings were not permitted to repeat aloud. This experience baffled him as to whether it was a … Continue reading →

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