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Entries from January 2007

The Gospel in TV shows

January 18th, 2007 · No Comments

I recently started watching the first season of Lost whilst I run on the ol’ treadmill in the basement. I’m not sure why I didn’t get into it the when it first aired. I think it must have been on while we were at XStream.
I’m loving it!
Almost every week there’s something that connects [...]

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Tags: Jesus

Watch out! Jesus might get angry…

January 17th, 2007 · 2 Comments

Just read this today and ran across the words: he looked around at them in anger.
So Jesus got angry.
I know that he was compassionate, tender, funny, cryptic, thoughtful, wise, obedient, radical, a lover of God and people…and angry.
I struggle with anger from time to time.
Hm…apparently, Jesus did, too. Jesus never sinned, though. [...]

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Tags: Jesus · anger

When Christ calls a man, He bids him come and die

January 12th, 2007 · No Comments

I was looking for a quote from Dietrich Bonheoffer (found it) when I ran across Boundless Webzine. Again. Turns out that I had it bookmarked, but never got back to it.
There’s a lot of good stuff there. I imagine that I’ll spend some time digging around the articles. I am enjoying [...]

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Tags: discipleship · priorities · silence

Some Football Thoughts, or Not

January 3rd, 2007 · No Comments

This was supposed to be a post full of witty observations about Nick Saban, Bill Cowher, Dwayne Jarrett, and Brett Favre.
I spent some time this morning drafting this, then got the blue screen of death.
I may re-work the post, but until then, be satisfied with this:

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A New Year

January 2nd, 2007 · No Comments

I’ve not been the kind of guy to make New Year’s Resolutions. I do usually spend some time reviewing the places where we’ve seen God at work. There have been some “blow-us-out-of-the-water” moments, and some places that were surprisingly disappointing. But if I were pressed, I have a resolution–a change that I [...]

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