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How Many Lights Do You See – Four or Five? (the scandal of certainty in uncertain times)
A simple phrase at the start of Luke’s gospel sucker-punched the solar plexus of my soul. Luke is the logical gospel for the season, so I dove in headlong, not suspecting any immediate surprise in such familiar territory. Suddenly, there it was, this throbbing heart hunger, identified and called out by the author/physician at the …[ read more ]
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How Not to Live like a Twitchy Rodent
We live like twitchy rodents raised in a labyrinthine minefield, constantly fearful of setting off a social or cultural IED. A reader emailed me a link to an article about new curriculum mandated for public schools in California. Curriculum which has the potential to create a hostile atmosphere for families with a biblical worldview. She …[ read more ]
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The Only Way to Make Sense of Women
There’s only one way to make sense of women. I should know. I’m a woman. XX chromosome credentialed. Bona fide by birth. Not a boast, just biology. Been managing estrogen since way back. Raised a daughter in the new millennium. Came up in the sixties and seventies raised by a Boomer woman. I’ve seen decades …[ read more ]
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When Your Faith is a Punchline – Nevermind
I don’t like being laughed at, do you? It’s one of our greatest fears and dislikes, to be the object of ridicule and mockery. It puts us back on the playground, feeling shame, fearing exclusion, desperately wanting to be like everyone else, safely standing with the crowd and not exposed, surrounded by mockers. “Everybody’s laughing …[ read more ]
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What if the Road to Redemption Passes through Hollywood
I don’t know about you but I worry about people who haven’t heard the truth of Jesus Christ presented well. But recently I’ve come to see that our culture proclaims the gospel every day in a million ways unwittingly, yes, but it’s there. Which confirms what it says in the book of Romans that what …[ read more ]