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Infighting
You will not hear about it much in our church history, but Christians have resorted to violence multiple times when they disagreed on points of theology, even to the extent of killing fellow Christians. Examples include Athanasius who was “quite … Continue reading
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The Foolishness of God
I am reading Dominion: How the Christian Revolution Remade the World by Tom Holland. Holland notes that throughout history, humans who claimed to be divine were not all that unusual. Those who accomplished great tasks (e.g. Egyptian kings, the Greek … Continue reading
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High Anxiety
Our current world situation—the pandemic, the various political upheavals around the world, the loss in confidence in many of our institutions—is inducing anxiety in many people. What are we to do? In Mathew 6:25-34, Jesus instructs us not to be … Continue reading
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What Can We Do?
I have heard the story of a church in Germany during WWII which was located near a railroad track that served one of the concentration camps. Each Sunday morning a train taking Jewish people to the camp passed by the … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned II
Amidst all the atrocities we have discussed in the past few blogs, there is an aspect of the human condition that we do not hear much about and that is history also tells of of a few individuals who risked … Continue reading
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Lessons Learned
The prominent atrocities we have discussed in the past few blogs are no different that occur on a daily basis in our world. People are starving all the time in our world but Stalin’s use of starvation to kill the … Continue reading
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The Price We Pay
In several of the past few blogs of this year, we have talked about the millions that have been tortured, tormented, and killed by various governments who were attempting to restructure their society according to their vision. The atrocities committed … Continue reading
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Closet Christians II
As we learned in the last blog, both Joseph of Arimathea and Nicodemus were secret followers of Jesus but yet they accomplished a vital function in ensuring Jesus’ body received a decent burial. The importance of what they did is … Continue reading
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Closet Christians
At church during the Easter Sunday services and while our pastor was preaching on what John had to say about the resurrection, I did some back tracking and read about the crucifixion and burial of Jesus. What caught my eye … Continue reading
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Causes of Suffering
In the last blog, we asked why God does not do something to stop all the evil and suffering in our world. We noted that since God is all powerful and is in control of events in our world that … Continue reading
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