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Seeking Balanced Christianity

Balanced biblical Christianity is a rare phenomenon. It seems to be a characteristic of our fallen minds that we find it easier to grasp half-truths than ...


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Borderline Christianity

There's something comfortable about reducing Christianity to a list of do's and don'ts, whether your list comes from mindless fundamentalism ...


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Churches Full of Sinners

The biblical fact is that there are no successful churches. There are, instead, communities of sinners, gathered before God week after week in towns and ...


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Lost and Unaware

A recent novel by Madeleine L'Engle is titled A Severed Wasp, If you're addressing young people or some other audience with strong stomachs, the ...


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Freedom Is Not Autonomy

I particularly like to warn my American audiences about this. Freedom is not the same thing as autonomy. Freedom does not mean I am a law unto myself. ...


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Mysteries of the Bible

I am glad there are things in the Bible I do not understand. If I could take that book up and read it as I would any other book, I might think I could ...


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"Objectivity" or the Breath of Hell

A young Englishman ... was in Germany when Nazis degraded the Jews in the streets. At first he was sick at the sight and rushed down a side street. The ...


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You Can't Change Someone Else

Be not angry that you cannot make others as you wish them to be, since you cannot make yourself as you wish to be.


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Misplaced Values

I once heard of a child who was raising a frightful cry because he had shoved his hand into the opening of a very expensive Chinese vase and then couldn't ...


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