later that nighti held an atlas in my lapran my fingers across thewhole worldand whisperedwhere does it hurt? it answeredeverywhereeverywhereeverywhere.
01617 – Where Does it Hurt?
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01604 – Fools, Fanatics, & Wisdom
The whole problem with the world is that fools and fanatics are so certain of themselves, yet wiser people are so full of doubts.
01595 – Church: A Security Blanket?
A strong inward focus in many churches creates a security blanket from a frightening world. Seems many prefer security over being salt, light, and leaven in the world. I think this reality grieves the heart of God and warms the hearts of many members of secure churches.
01572 – God Works in Silence
The kings and dictators and the mighty of the world accomplish their work with speeches and drums and brass and the thunder of bombers. But God works in silence.
01571 – Number One Cause of Atheism
The number one cause of atheism is Christians. Those who proclaim Him with their mouths and deny Him with their actions is what an unbelieving world finds unbelievable.
01570 – Never Stop Loving!
I look around and see so much fear, people getting more and more comfortable with their hate, more at ease being mean, more united in their division. And I think, NO. Not me. I will not get lost in this fearful world. I will not play with bullies. I will continue to...
01556 – Participation, not Substitution
It's about participation in Christ and not substitution by Christ. And we...are invited to travel with Jesus through execution to resurrection. The Last Supper is about bread for the world, God's justice against human injustice, a New Passover from bondage to...
01541 – Great Leaders
Great leaders never accept the world as it was and always work for the world as it should be.
01501 – Claiming Jesus is God
Many otherwise honest and intellectual people will construct a neat bypass around the claim of Jesus to be God. Being people of insight and imagination, they know perfectly well that once to accept such a claim as fact would mean a readjustment of their own purposes...
01500 – The Ideal of Kingship
It is this ideal of kingship that is manifested most perfectly in the life and mission of Jesus of Nazareth. ...The ideal of kingship furnished the content for the messianic tradition, the tradition which was fulfilled in the life of Christ and which is the challenge...