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Two weeks ago, one of my classes spent a five-day span of classes disucssing the matter of the metaphysical free will of man and theological determinism. While we did not begin within an explicitly Christian context, our discussion drifted toward the matter of predestination as the week progressed, culminating in an essay assignment in which [...]
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I am currently neck deep in free will/determinism for yet another essay, but while in the midst of the current one I recalled how I posted my first essay here, and so I will do the same for the most recent essay turned in. As of yet I have not heard any evaluation from my [...]
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Tags: Christianity, church, evangelism, politics, school
The Table Politics of God
“To accept the call to Christian discipleship is to accept responsibility for a situation in which many in the world have no bread on the table and to be empowered through a Spirit-created community to be that bread. To be an evangelizing church is to be more than “willing” to invite to our table the [...]
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Starbucks
My evangelism prof showed this video to us this morning. We’ve been talking about rival gospel narratives and how they can creep into our presentation and communication of the Gospel and distort it. Worth a look and some thoughts after viewing.
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Confession
We mustn’t forget that the One who is present in confession is omniscient. God knows everything, remembers everything, all that we have ever confided to him, or what we have ever kept from his confidence. He is the One “who sees in secret,” with whom we speak even in silence. No one can venture to [...]
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I was thinking about feet today.
It has been a particularly nice day outside here at Cedarville University, so I decided to spend some time sitting by the lake to do some reading, praying, journaling, etc. My feet were tired of being in shoes all day, so I took my shoes and socks off and enjoyed [...]
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Tags: God, life, random
Gettin’ Hitched
As part of my progression through church history, I read through the Crusades of the Medieval era tonight, and I couldn’t help but see the connections between that mistake of the Church and the earlier and (perhaps bigger) mistake of aligning itself with Constantine in the 300s. I’ve been reading through history and analysis of [...]
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In light of the massive amount of reading and writing I have on tap for the current semester’s worth of classes, my consistent contribution to this blog has suffered. Currently I am working on a paper that will be due tomorrow on the rise of Constantine and the resulting impact on the Church, so I [...]
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Tags: Christian culture, school
21
Well as of an hour ago my 21st birthday has come and gone.
Of course, 21 is a big deal for those in or around my age. For the obvious reasons – being legally allowed to purchase and consume alcohol – and thus by extension somehow attaining manhood? Something about drunkenness doesn’t quite add up to [...]
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Billion-Dollar Numbness
The Senate Finance Committee just gave the go-ahead to move forward with the health care reform bill everyone has been yelling about for the past year. According to the reports, the estimated cost of the whole thing would be $829 billion, or $829,000,000,000. Lots of zeros.
Over the past few years, with all the recession talk and bailouts [...]
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Tags: consumerism, disillusionment, politics, the world
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