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Three Ways Jesus Handled Posers, Fakes, and Hypocrites
Most of us operate under the delusion that posers, fakers, and hypocrites are easy to spot. The truth is that some are, others aren’t. According to 1 Timothy 5:24, “The sins of some people are conspicuous, going before them to judgment, but the sins of others appear later.” We’ve all been fooled by someone we …[ read more ]
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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 ]