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Recommended Books
Lately I have been getting asked a lot about some books that are good to read that are affecting my thinking in the last year. This has been coming about because of recent postings and blog posts....
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What Do YOU See?
I just finished reading an account written by a retired gentleman who began working in a homeless shelter helping serve the noon meal to do something worthwhile and to help take up some free time....
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Gospel or Rah Rah???
Sunday again. Each Sunday I see tons of posts on Facebook and quotes people post from “church.” Almost everything I see could easily have been taken from a pep rally or a positive thinking seminar or...
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Martin Luther King, Jr. on the Status Quo and “Church”
A while back I wrote ”A Respectable, Feel Good Church” and received several comments here as well as on Facebook. I just read an excerpt shared by someone from Martin Luther King’s “Letter From...
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From Fear To Faith – A New Book
This is the title of a book scheduled to be released in March. I have an essay included in the collection along with several others. You can read the synopsis of the book at the link below and pre...
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Take Aim At Ourselves
I came across a blog post today through a post on Facebook and have read it over several times, especially this paragraph: Here is what I think, you wanna be like Luther? Set your aim on all the...
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Right Texts, Wrong Meanings
RIGHT TEXTS, WRONG MEANINGS: Busting Myths from Popular New Testament Texts. This is the title of a new book by a friend of mine, Dr. Sam Tsang. Every day on social networking sites I see lone Bible...
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Things Aren’t Always Simple
I am asked frequently if one HAS to be a scholar to understand the biblical texts. No, but scholarship sure helps and contributes to our understanding of such ancient texts, far removed from us and...
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From Fear To Faith Almost Ready!
The book is shipping in a few days and you can pre-order at the link below! I have shared part of my own journey in this book along with several others. It is needed and I hope it may be of help to...
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“Negative” People and the “Positive” People
I saw this on Facebook this morning. “Quote for the day: You cannot hang out with negative people and expect to live a positive life.” The thought then occurred to me that Jesus did. So did...
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Confronting The Lie: “God won’t give you more than you can handle”
The title is not my own. I saw this blog posted on Facebook this morning and it resonates with me. The phrase is one that hardly a week goes by that I don’t see someone write it on social media or...
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Allowing Others Their Freedom
I have been making my way through Hopeful Imagination by Walter Brueggemann the last few days. In the book he discusses Jeremiah, Ezekiel and 2 Isaiah as they relate to the exile of the Israelites to...
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Simplicity For Our Lives
What I have really been wanting to write about is the treatment of God as the Wizard of Oz on social media posts every day. But that will be for another day because I started reading Philip Gulley’s...
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I Am Back (I promise)
As you can see I took a hiatus! I have been doing some reading, taking an online class on Moral Philosophy and Psychology under Dr Paul Bloom from Yale and just relaxing. So I decided this weekend to...
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Out of Comfort Zones
Getting out of comfort zones is rarely comfortable! Doing so, however, can be a great learning experience. Most of my life has included a lot of biblical studies and theology and church doctrines....
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Have We Abused the Bible?
We see and hear them every day. Little quotes of Bible verses lifted out of context from a complete text somewhere. Or just little quotes that we THINK are from a Bible text somewhere but really...
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