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Archive for July, 2005

The Pretender Church

The last verse of “The Pretender” by Jackson Browne:

I’m going to be a happy idiot
And struggle for the legal tender
Where the ads take aim and lay their claim
To the heart and the soul of the spender
And believe in whatever may lie
In those things that money can buy
Thought true love could have been a contender
Are you [...]

Repent For Repenting

It seems that everywhere I go in the ’sphere’ we call Christianity, there is always something that someone is asking people to ‘repent’ over. Usually the call for repentance is called out with a verse such as 2 Chronicles 7:14 to justify the repentance. From the sins of your great-great-great-great-great-great-great granparents, from disagreeing with a [...]

Turning Off The Jesus Streetlight

A good friend of mine sent me a link to this article about a woman who claims to see an image of Jesus on the side of a tree at night when a particular streetlight in combination with the tree casts a shadow that claims to be an image of Jesus.

Anti-Christ of the week ending 7-16-05

Anti-Christ of the week ending 7-16-05 is:

The Cycle Will Repeat Again

I was reading this post about another prominent televangelist who was indicted by a federal grand jury on Tuesday on charges of income tax evasion. After reading this article, the first thing that came up in my mind was:
The cycle will repeat itself again….

Understanding The Groanings of Jesus

I was reading a passage in John 11 about Lazarus and one word in these two verses really got my attention:

33Therefore, when Jesus saw her weeping, and the Jews who came with her weeping, He groaned in the spirit and was troubled.
38Then Jesus, again groaning in Himself, came to the tomb. It was a cave, [...]

Strom Responds To His Toronto Blessing Post

A worthy response from Andrew Strom.