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Sins, Sin, and Sinning
Sins, Sin, and Sinning Growing up I heard ministers say that a person needs not only to be saved from the penalty of sin (justified), they must be transformed (sanctified) in a way that changes their heart and they will stop from sinning. I believe that salvation involves......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-11 13:47:44 | Rating:

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Nicene Creed
I certainly accept the doctrine of The Trinity but really believe that the various creedal statements about it are attempting to say that God is paradoxically One and has multiple Persons, or something. I really think that our finite minds and language hit the wall as we attempt to......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-12 13:34:39 | Rating:

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Scoundrels, Too
Scoundrels Too When Martin Luther left the Roman Catholic Church people sent him many stories of wayward, often in sexual sin, priests and nuns. Finally, Luther said and wrote, “Enough! This is about the gospel. We'll have our scoundrels, too.”......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-15 06:16:09 | Rating:

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How Warped ?
How Warped? From the end of third grade through 7 th grade I grew up in a small east Texas town with lots of poor people trying to get ahead. Often people would buy an acre or so of land, move a house trailer on it and live in that while they built a house.......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-15 06:41:05 | Rating:

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Personal Pronouns
Personal Pronouns I am certainly not a linguist but have been a student of popular and Biblical literature for over 50 years. While in college I took two one semester courses in Spanish. In them I learned that in Spanish pronouns may have a......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-16 17:17:21 | Rating:

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Leadership is Everything
LEADERSHIP IS EVERYTHING Years ago I attended a Church Growth training seminar led by John Maxwell (actually several of them) in which he said “Leadership is everything”. I see that there is a website by that name and a book has been published with that title,......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-17 08:09:45 | Rating:

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Long on Love
Long on Love I was mentored for many years by my first wife's father (we divorced in the 1990's) who was a retired minister and died at age 90 in 1996. He had been a minister for almost 50 years before retiring. He told me several times, “In the struggle between......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-21 05:45:42 | Rating:

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Churches and Politics
Churches and Politics In my view churches should teach principles not “take positions on political issues” . The moment a religious group begins to back a political party, movement, or government, it loses its ability to......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-22 06:44:13 | Rating:

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Dilletant
Dilletant A “dabbler” rather than an expert. In I nside the Third Reich Albert Speer wrote that Adolf Hitler was often a dilletant when he would demand that a specific thing be done while he really did not know the specifics of what he was asking. During Hitler's......Read More

Posted on: 2007-09-23 05:39:29 | Rating:

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Melting Pot
From 'Melting Pot' to 'Stew Pot' For generations America accepted immigrants from around the world and was known as the great “Melting Pot”. But with the passage of the long overdue Civil Rights Act of 1964 the society changed from being a 'melting pot' to a great......Read More