I just saw a computer graphic with a traditional-style pic of Jesus that read “Jesus was a Liberal -Feed the Hungry Heal the Sick”. It bothered me.
What is this but the cheapening of the gospel and a punning use of the name of Jesus Christ?
Because Jesus wasn’t partisan. He wasn’t either traditional or liberal or [...]
Entries from October 31st, 2004
Stop Already
October 31st, 2004 · Comments Off · Christian
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Death And Dying
October 30th, 2004 · Comments Off · Who Knows
Read one bloggers description of the death of his father. I read it with morbid interest, as I had gone through this starting about this time last year. It was wrenchingly detailed . Gave my stomach just a slight turn. That gave me something to think about.
Was it disturbing because of the [...]
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Things I Learned from My Children
October 29th, 2004 · Comments Off · Clannish -Family, Contemplations
I learned more about ‘carpe diem’ from my children, than from any other earthly source. Some of it was gained from watching them experience the wonder of the world, some was in the process of teaching, training, and learning, but recently much has come from my daughter as she is just simply [...]
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Giving Thanks
October 26th, 2004 · Comments Off · Cuppa, blogdom
As we get on into the season and especially once elections are past, we will see more and more posts on being thankful. As it should be, because that’s what holidays do, they focus our attention on something important.
I’ve been doing a little gratefulness notation early. Blog-related.
JD of the host here, weblogs.us, has [...]
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Anger In Its Place
October 25th, 2004 · Comments Off · Contemplations, facts-of-life
I think we have to go through a number of steps in order to not sin through anger.
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Found It
October 25th, 2004 · Comments Off · Conviviality, fragments
shorthand for why I don’t think we should legislate behaviors.
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example
October 24th, 2004 · Comments Off · Cogitations
Religion Matters in Politics – Bush vs Kerry :: Commentary :: bLogicus
Dawn Treader’s post
These are examples of what I mean about the way personal jurisdiction works in impacting society through religion.
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A Failure To Communicate
October 23rd, 2004 · Comments Off · Cacophony
Get used to it, but try to work on it. I liked how this blogger addresses the problem.
~There’s No Place Like Home~
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Homosexual Marriage
October 22nd, 2004 · Comments Off · Controversy
The topic is not something I would normally choose. I don’t like to go bulldozing in where the emotional payload is so high that little of worth gets said.
but…here I am… thanks to Parablemania, the blog.
I just can’t let it go, not when “Homosexuality has the same standing as abomination as worshipping other gods. The [...]
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History Redux
October 25th, 2004 · Comments Off · Commentary
If the emergent church keeps emphasizing an” evolution of revelation” type of doctrine it will lose its most idealistic and passionate adherents that “just want more of the reality of God” and desire to see the Church become its promised potential.
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