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Tai Sabaki for the Body of Christ – A Shift that Foils the Enemy’s Plans
We aren’t the first people to be angry about what’s become of their society. We aren’t the first to sense a cultural shift we foresee as cataclysmic. We aren’t the first to wrestle with how to respond. In the days of Herod, King of Judah, God’s people suffered under Roman rule. They lived in the …[ read more ]
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The Power of Angry Christians
Recent headlines are full of angry Christians. Anger is a natural emotion. It’s often not the first emotion we feel in a string of responses but the force of anger usually overshadows the initial reaction that inspired it. Anger is like the alert system on the Starship Enterprise – when a threat appears on the …[ read more ]
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What Light in this Present Darkness?
Are you finally angry enough to invest energy in fighting the true enemy? I sat beside a lovely professional woman this week. I like this girl. She’s snarky, intelligent, and strong. We don’t know one another well but we get along. So, I was shocked to hear her make this pronouncement as she scrolled through …[ read more ]
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How Not to Cough Up a Human Hair Ball
This week I learned about a rare disorder called trichophagia. Well, “learned about” might be stretching it. I was watching a BBC drama series about a doctor in a small village and one of the characters presented with symptoms that turned out to be trichophagia. The doctor only made his diagnosis after his patient dramatically …[ read more ]
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So Many Angry Christians (So few people calling them out on it)
One of my all-time favorite cartoons is Calvin and Hobbes and my favorite of those is one of Calvin and his patient mother. The first frame shows Calvin’s mother sitting on the sofa calmly folding laundry when from another room Calvin yells “Mom! Mom!” In the next frame Calvin’s mother has black clouds around her …[ read more ]