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Redefining God Out of Love: Reflections on an Inauspicious Tweet 27 Jun 2013 | 11:28 pm
Much has been, and could be, written about yesterday’s SCOTUS rulings. I want to focus on just one small part. But before we get to that, I want to urge everyone (and here I am preaching too to myself...
The Deep Closed Over Me: Nigerian Man Rescued On the Third Day 14 Jun 2013 | 02:58 am
JONAH 2:1 Then Jonah prayed to the LORD his God from the belly of the fish, 2 saying, “I called out to the LORD, out of my distress, and he answered me; out of the belly of Sheol I cried, and you hear...
Covered Up and Revealed: A Season of Reluctant Transparency? 13 Jun 2013 | 05:58 pm
A dear brother in the Lord, who has graciously endured my blog rantings since near the time I began them, eight years ago, wrote me yesterday. He observed, in essence, that the recent uptick in the pa...
What is Sacred? James Clapper, Edward Snowden and the Hangover From American Exceptionalism 11 Jun 2013 | 07:11 pm
James Clapper, the director of national intelligence, told NBC that the leaks “violate a sacred trust for this country. The damage that these revelations incur are huge.” Full 27-minute Andrea Mitchel...
America on the Potter’s Wheel: Edward Snowden, Jeremiah and Relenting of Intended Good 10 Jun 2013 | 02:39 am
Edward Snowden: the whistleblower behind the NSA surveillance revelations NSA whistleblower Edward Snowden: ‘I do not expect to see home again’ The surname ‘Snowden,’ “derive[s] from the Old English p...
NSA in an Acts Context: Manning Up and Focusing In 7 Jun 2013 | 09:52 pm
How ironic that, on the 64th anniversary of the publication of George Orwell’s ’1984′ yesterday (eight being a number associated, in scripture, with overflowing super-abundance), a story like this sho...
We’ve Lost the Gospel 6 Jun 2013 | 05:16 pm
Great post by Andrew Strom today. Excerpt [caps in original]: People are actually no longer becoming saved. (Remember, Paul said that the gospel is the “POWER OF GOD unto salvation”). And when people ...
Eyes Ahead; Keep Walking 6 Jun 2013 | 04:45 pm
Very insightful post on David Wilkerson’s daily devotional page today. Excerpt: One of the great sorrows in all my years of ministry has been to witness the burnout of former addicts and alcoholics wh...
There’s Only One Remedy… The Truth 30 May 2013 | 01:02 am
In the beginning was the Word… your word is truth… I am… the truth… (John 1:1, 17:17b, 14:6n) ———— I’m sure that you believe there’s only one remedy for this slander, and that’s the truth. And I encou...
When the Headwaters Become Polluted: Of Eagles and Minnesota (UPDATED) 20 May 2013 | 07:55 pm
A number of regular readers have sent me links to various ‘takes’ on the story about two eagles, locked in a fierce mid-air battle, which crashed to earth last Sunday, May 12th, near Duluth, Minnesota...
