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The Osteen-Smock Paradox
The Osteen-Smock Paradox: Discovering the Unity in Diversity Spectrum of the Church in Joel Osteen and Jed Smock I was sitting on the ridged pew at the back of the…
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Loves Like a Hurricane
The other day I met yet another displaced Louisianian. I have met so many over the past few years who were compelled from Louisiana to Texas because of Hurricane Katrina. …
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Six Wise Blind Men of Indostan
Are you a Calvinist or an Armenian? Many Christians have no doubt had to wrestle with whether they fall under the banner of John or Jacobus, whether they think the…
On Pain and Suffering and Evil…
"God caused Hurricane Rita" If I hear another person say that God caused Hurricane Rita, or that God caused their loved one to suffer some illness or that God caused…
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I am the I AM
I am slightly now beginning to understand how powerful it was when God revealed His name to His children in the days of Moses (Exodus 6). Out of the burning…
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Coincidences are Not Kosher,
so goes an old Jewish saying and I conquer. My goal is to generally begin each day with some light study and heavy prayer. Unfortunately I still struggle with some…
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“There is no point giving a man a rose to smell after you’ve cut off his nose.”–Indian Proverb
Constantly when discussing truth and the person of Jesus Christ with antagonists I have to repeatedly remind myself of this proverb. The sheer zeal of well-intended intellectual jabber can easily…