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Archive for April, 2008

Getting Real

I went back and looked again at the controversial interview….

Identity Crisis

I just got finished read J. Lee Grady’s latest ‘Fire In My Bones” column entitled Tired Labels and Worn-out Wineskins and I saw something that is really at stake in the church of today…
identity

Good Reading For Tax Day

A view on spiritual warfare by Steve Camp
A view on “national guilt” by The Grey Coats

The Healing Rain

I got an e-mail a friend of mine who sent me a link to a video on Youtube

Anti-Christ of the week ending 4-7-08

Anti-Christ of the week ending 4-7-08 is:

My (fill in the blank), My Savior

I have been keeping up with the controversy where the American Idol contestants last Wednesday sung the popular worship song ‘Shout To The Lord’ (written by Darlene Zschech of Hillsongs fame) but with a catch…
They replaced the line “My Jesus, My Savior with “My shepherd, My Savior”

Beyond The View

From Brennan Manning’s book Prophets and Lovers, pages 37-38:

The tone of the Christ of God is not always sweet and consoling. The Gospel is the Good News of gratuitous salvation, but it does not promise a picnic on a green lawn. In the man Jesus, in his words, the invisible God becomes audible. And God [...]