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Jesus
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Theology, Jesus
Resurrection Power
Doubt is a perennial problem for me. While I have friends and family for whom belief comes very easily, my walk toward and with God has often been over rough ground. My natural bent is toward reason and intellectual assent, so some days, Christianity feels like a stretch. Which made today’s sermon all the more […]
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Jesus, Bible, Books
The Tolkien I Always Wanted
I’m an admitted, even gleeful, Tolkien geek. I read LOTR once a year or so, and sometimes more often than that. I actually enjoy all that description that seems to scare so many would-be readers away. And hearing about some new Tolkien ephemera always makes me excited.
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Theology, Jesus
Lewis on Pantheism
“[The Gospel] was hated not, at bottom, because it pictured [Jesus] as man but because it pictured him as king, or even as warrior. The Pantheist’s god does nothing, demands nothing. He is there if you wish for him, like a book on a shelf. He will not pursue you. There is no danger that […]
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Jesus, Bible
Meeting Jesus on Good Friday
Too few Protestants experience Good Friday for what it is. The blend of mourning and magnification of Jesus Christ, the “man of sorrows, and acquainted with grief,” doesn’t fit with the modern Western church’s passion for its own comfort. I sense that dark love in myself, and for myself. How different is my casual happiness […]
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Faith, Jesus, Books, Culture 3
Jesus of Suburbia
This looks like an interesting forthcoming title from W Publishing. What do we do with suburbia? How can we avoid equating middle- to upper-middle-class lifestyles and values with Christian values?
You may know, or you may not, that Green Day has a song called “Jesus of Suburbia” on its American Idiot album. You can probably tell […]
