Category: Bible
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WHITE SANTA, WHITE JESUS, AND THAT GUY FROM DUCK DYNASTY
My Facebook feed has “blown” up the last two days with cultural/religious issues that, quite frankly, have me confused. At first I thought I would just keep my digital mouth shut, but ah heck, what’s the fun in that. These are the kinds of blog posts that get me ‘unfollowed’ but I can live with…
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ADVENT 2013–WEEK THREE AND CHRISTMAS EVE
When many of us think about Christmas, music dominates. Whether it is Bing Crosby, Eartha Kitt, Messiah, or Christmas Cantatas at church we always associate the Christmas holiday with beautiful music. The third week of Advent brings us to Revelation 6, which has some of the early church’s greatest worship songs and they serve as…
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ADVENT 2013–WEEK TWO READINGS
There is just something about the end of the world that brings out nut jobs and wingnuts. I mean, loons thrive on this stuff and they always want to run to the book of Revelation to prove stuff. The problem is, the book of Revelation proves nothing except that there will be an end and…
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ADVENT 2013–WEEK ONE READINGS
I know that tomorrow is Thanksgiving, but Sunday is the first day of Advent. As per my tradition, each year I spend time translating from the Greek New Testament some of the Advent readings. I do this for many reasons but now as I am a full-time writer I do it as a writing exercise. …