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BLOG 4/13/18. YOUR LIFE IRRELEVANT TO HISTORY? SAY WHAT? My last blog precipitated some response that requires a follow-up. I quoted a missions professor whose statement was: “If you can’t relate your life to Christ’s Great Commission, then your life … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/10/18. “IF YOU CAN’T RELATE YOUR LIFE TO THE GREAT COMMISSION, THEN YOUR LIFE IS IRRELEVANT TO HISTORY” Doesn’t that sound like an outrageously extreme proposition? It’s worth chewing on. It comes, as I recall, in something similar to … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/6/18. THE ENIGMA OF THE TRUMP PRESIDENCY It inevitably comes up in conversation, once that conversation turns to politics, and that is how so many ostensible Christian persons can be so dedicated to a person whose whole demeanor contradicts … Continue reading →

BLOG 4/3/18. WHAT FOLLOWS EASTER? HOPE AND PERSECUTION! It is worth a brief reminder, that historically what followed that first Easter was something like four centuries of persecution … and what made that persecution endurable was the incredible hope that … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/27/18. CAN A CHURCH BE PART OF THE DARKNESS? In the morally and ethically confused period through which we are currently living, what with issues of gun-control, homelessness, huge prison populations, record number of refugees worldwide, hunger, immigrant status, … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/23/18. ME? A PROTESTER? Tomorrow, all over this country, thousands upon thousands of (primarily) young people will be marching in protest about this nation’s failure to enact stricter gun control laws. They will be primarily young because the older … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/20/18. “HOW EVANGELICALS LOST THEIR WAY …” For those of you who are the regular readers of these blogs, you would know how totally dismayed, even undone, I am over the phenomenon of this present administration, and the way … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/16/18. ST. PATRICK: GREEN BEER … OR MISSIONARY GIANT? Oh, yes! Tomorrow is St. Patrick’s Day, what with parades, green outfits, green beer, and all the rest. And I’m all for all that fun. But, then, being a student … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/13/18. ‘STREET CRED’ FOR CHRIST’S FOLLOWERS In the parlance of the urban street culture, to say that a person has street cred is a designation of acceptance of that person as one whom you can trust to be authentically … Continue reading →

BLOG 3/9/18. “THE GOSPEL OF PEACE” … WHAT? Of late I have been taken with one of the apostle’s terms for the thrilling and captivating message of God’s invasion of his rebel creation in the person of Jesus of Nazareth … Continue reading →