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January 15, 2005
Response to Romans 14:1-15:13
Filed under: God, Faith & Spirituality
What can we learn from Paul's response to the Jew/Gentile tension within the Roman Church in dealing with our own racial and cultural tensions within our local churches?
A Christian's response to racial and ethnic tensions within their culture, specifically with regard to lifestyle and values, should be one of godliness, glory, and grace. When a response flows from such a context, grace is extended to people, glory extends to God, and godliness (reverence, divinity) is experienced by both the receiver and the giver.
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January 14, 2005
Say not the Struggle Naught Availeth
Filed under: Inspiration
Say not the struggle naught availeth
The labour and the wounds are vain,
The enemy faints not, nor faileth,
And as things have been they remain.
If hopes were dupes, fears may be liars;
It may be, in yon smoke conceal'd,
Your comrades chase e'en now the fliers,
And, but for, you possess the field.
For while the tired waves, vainly breaking,
Seem here no painful inch to gain,
Far back, through creeks and inlets making,
Comes silent, flooding in, the main.
And not by eastern windows only,
When daylight comes, comes in the light;
In front the sun climbs slow, how slowly!
But westward, look, the land is bright!
-Arthur Hugh Clough (1819-1861)
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January 3, 2005
Religion: A Pacifier?
Filed under: God, Faith & Spirituality
Is religion (in the Christian sense) a pacification for people who don't have purpose or poise? Can people with purpose and poise still have a relationship with Jesus but not be so caught up in it so as to seem to pacify themselves with emotion, emulation, or enlightenment?
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January 2, 2005
Six Steps
Filed under: Big Ideal
In 2005, I want to find out if what I am doing is what God wants me doing. Because I don't know the formula for figuring this out, and because my faith is pretty big, I am going to make up my own. I am going to take six steps for each major initiative I pursue. At each of the six steps, I am going to do little checks to see if the next step seems right.
Nothing big, spectacular or magical.
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