Category: Christian Perspective
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A thought I feel compelled to share with my friends regarding our place in politics.
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Preface This is a response to a recent blog entry I stumbled upon by user Shape Your Life (SYL). The post was title Nice Guy vs. Alpha Male: An Intro and in the course of about a dozen paragraphs he goes through the common problems he sees with men in relationships today. Allow me to preface…
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I heard this song not long ago and I love it. I’ve not been a huge Coldplay fan in the past, but this song is great. It’s almost a kind of hopeful lament which resounds in my heart every time I hear it now. Why is that? “Beloved, I urge you as sojourners and exiles…
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Vanity of vanities, says the preacher, vanity of vanities! All is vanity. What has been is what will be, and what has been done is what will be done, and there is nothing new under the sun. Is there a thing of which it is said, “See, this is new”? It has been already and…
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“Do you fancy yourself a philosopher?” I remember being asked that by a friend at the University of South Florida’s Tampa campus. At the time I simply answered yes. It was a time of walking in my own understanding, a time when I chose to back away from my clear calling into ministry in general…
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“Beware of practicing your righteousness before other people in order to be seen by them, for then you will have no reward from your Father who is in heaven. “Thus, when you give to the needy, sound no trumpet before you, as the hypocrites do in the synagogues and in the streets, that they may…
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Do you ever stop and think back on your life? Who are you? Where have you come from? Where are you going? What is your purpose? Do you have an answer for all of these, or any of them at all? Now if you are a child of God in Christ, consider what you’ve become…
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I have been a Christian for about 8.5 years and I would like to say that I’ve been able to trust in my God and Savior with my whole heart. The problem is that is simply not the case. While I have learned and grown through the years I still have a lot of distrust. …
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“We were settling for a Christianity that revolves around catering to ourselves when the central message of Christianity is actually about abandoning ourselves.” – David Platt: Radical (p. 7) Here we are. America, 2012. The pressing issues in the nation? The economy, presidential elections, gay-rights, and a flurry of other not-so-important issues that each of…
Ancient Abandon 