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Category Archives: Devotional
“When Does It Stop?” When It Stops.
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
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
Perfect Bible? Perfect Jesus? How about John’s Perfect Love?
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?”
(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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Durban Muse
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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Loyalty: Spider’s Web, Titanic, or Original Design?
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
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
“Things that No One is Permitted to Tell.”
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