Category: Culture
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MORE RETRO SONGS MAKE GREAT SERMON TITLES
One of the most popular, blogs I have ever posted was titled Retro Songs Make Great Sermon Titles. I thought I would share a few more retro-songs and the way I might, hypothetically, employ them in preaching. The catch is never the actual song itself, but the title as a cultural touchstone, or hook, to…
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I STEPPED OUT AND THE WHOLE WORLD FELL APART
As a man who grew up in Tornado Alley and now lives in Northwest Washington—home of slate gray and high winds, I found a lot of interest in the way the media covered the recent earthquake/hurricane situation on the East Coast. For starters, had either of these events occurred anywhere else, neither would have received…
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HEMINGWAY AND PASCAL TALK
So right now I am reading two different books, which is not that unusual for me. Sometimes I read up to four different books concurrently. One of the books I am about to finish is Pascal’s Pensees. I’ve been working on this treatise for a long time. My joy that I am nearing completion is…