tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-52626942009-11-09T13:20:06.140-08:00Look at the feet. A broken bottle of incense lies on the floor. She lies there weeping and kissing the Son of God. She mops her tears with her hair. Some think its disgusting. His money man is sickened by the waste. The Son of God says "When you're forgiven much you love much." This humiliating, messy, desperate attempt at kindness is my kind of story. It illustrates the only kind of faith that fits me.chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16190307304407180671noreply@blogger.comBlogger367125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262694.post-56517353340546126672007-02-16T12:41:00.000-08:002007-02-16T12:47:19.044-08:00

For the final episode of Little House on the Prairie they smashed up the town and then blew it up. A fire broke out on the grounds of the M*A*S*H set and they managed to write it into the plot of the final episode. I have no fancy ending to this blog. Just a redirect.

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Keep praying. My mom was admitted to the hospital the night before last for the fluid surrounding her internal organs. She is starting the pill form of chemotherapy. They asked about whether they should look into hospice care yet and were told no. This is a hopeful sign. Thanks for all the love and support.

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I'm leaning more and more towards switching to my Wordpress site and just leaving this one up for archives. Main reason: few returning visitors, few comments anyway. Reason for not: blogger's email to post feature. Reason to leap: blogger's comment feature is so cumbersome that I think most folks give up trying to comment. That's my theory anyway. Reason for leaping would be that Wordpress's

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Almost as soon as I finished that last post the song "Hope" by Mason Proffit began on my ITunes. The lyrics go:"There's a mountain/there's a lake/there's a people who God did not forsake/there's a river Lord and there's a way/and there's one small word we all need to say/Hope/for a world of lovin'/hope for a time of givin'/hope is a word worth livin'/let's live together"

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Sometimes the most important muscle in my body, the pulpy mass in my head in which I feel emotion, use cognition, read, process and disseminate information, and focus my will and energy, is no defense against the darkness I sense coming my way. I'm talking about my beautiful mothers body suffering. I'm talking about the knowledge that one day I will not be able to call or see her anymore. I can't

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Thanks for your prayers. Mom got home around 1:30am this morning. The tests revealed that the cancer is on the move throughout her internal organs, heart, liver, and kidneys. She will return Monday for more tests. They gave her meds for the stomach pain and at this point she can remain home. This is difficult for us all emotionally. Mom was quite hopeful for healing and now feels resignation

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I'd like to send out a general plea for prayer for my mom. Months ago I wrote about her battle with cancer. She and my dad are now in the Emergency Room and doctors are running a battery of tests for the next four hours.I just got off the phone with my dad. He says that the doctors seemed very concerned.There's a good chance the cancer has spread to her stomach and elsewhere. Please pray for dad

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remind me that i'm the same guy i was yesterday. walk with me and just be who you are.

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Eberhard Bethge, Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Biography, Chapter Ten “Finkenwalde: 1936-1937” pgs. 493-586 Other Works consulted:The Way to Freedom: Letters, Lectures and Notes, 1935-1939, Edited by Edwin Robertson, Cleveland: Collins-World, 1977. Dietrich Bonhoeffer: A Life in Pictures, the Centenary Edition, Fortress, 2006. Daring, Trusting Spirit: Bonhoeffer’s Friend Eberhard Bethge by John W.

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My sister Jen has a great eye for photography. Of course, her kid subjects are the cutest in the world too! They just happen to be my offspring.Tags: sisters, Jennifer Rice

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Sub Ratione Dei has once again "beaten me to the take" with his book review of Robert Brimlow's What About Hitler? This is another reminder to me that I need to get back to blogging Bethge. I do have a plan for less TV at night and more Bonhoeffer. In my defense, my HP all-in-one printer "gave up the ghost" today, delaying my work schedule.

chrishttp://www.blogger.com/profile/16190307304407180671noreply@blogger.com0tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-5262694.post-28317774572864620652007-02-05T09:04:00.001-08:002007-02-05T09:04:41.816-08:00

When I said catalogs I meant catalogs for office supplies and packing materials. Not catalogs from fellow publishers. I keep those of course.

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It takes money to make money in a book publishing venture. Sometimes the shipping costs alone are enough to really hurt. Here's one idea I've come up with for packing boxes. Instead of the plastic bubble wrap, use your shredder on the metric tons of print catalogs that come in. Shredding can be cathartic and, once started, can feel almost like pyromania! Take out your anger on the advertisers and

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For the most part I have kept quiet on the whole gay marriage and sexual identity debate raging in the Church. Much of the reason for my silence has been, as with many topics, the innane level of dialogue on the subject. Decidedly "pro-gay" spokespersons tend to leave no room for anyone claiming that they left the gay lifestyle. To leave the gay lifestyle, for some, is to be a liar. Well, I have

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It used to be that we had a lot less choice in our faith. Nowadays we live in a glut of choices. Questions themselves are "invitations" to "deeper truths." But discipleship, cross-bearing, and repentance are not simple rational decisions. They take commitment. If we are unwilling to see ourselves as part of a grand and deeply flawed human attempt at acceptable and sociable form of the Western one

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A story was related to me about a caucasian man with liberal sympathies who prided himself in his appreciation for all that the Civil Rights movement did to change his more redneck kind. He happened into an African American bookstore in downtown Chicago and meandered around poking through books. As he headed to leave he was taken by a large photo of a public hanging. He gasped and staggered loud

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Evangelicals and Pentecostals, now in the Mainstream, are not as rough around the edges as their fathers. They've moved their window dressing up nine floors. They're not quite so fundamentalist, so dogmatic, so doctrinaire, so old. As I look back at the battles my father fought with an eye toward my own future, I can't honestly say I'm happy to see all the errors he fought go, if it means my

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Jesus’ preference for the poor is a source of social dissonance. Miraculous healings, exorcisms, and social intercourse with a Samaritan woman known for her many failed relationships were all unacceptable activities that put his larger public relations in jeopardy. Further, he didn’t use key opportunities to his advantage. After one miracle the people were ready to make him king by force, but he

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What is fascinating and staggering to me is how, in America, no amount of controversy surrounding a media personality who claims to speak for God will always hurt their influence. The two cases in point are Pat Robertson, head of CBN and Regent University, and Oral Roberts, founder of Oral Roberts University. Both of these men are extremely controversial, but just where we might feel confident

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It happens whenever I’m in the presence of glossolalia (speaking in tongues) or of a prayer for immediate healing. I quickly scan the room and do a mental recall of who is present and how this will be perceived. If I remember that we’re all friends and family, I feel safe. If I remember that someone present may not understand, I feel uncomfortable. Will this be shocking, interesting, or

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Five Acceptable Heresies* Infecting Evangelicals and Pentecostals today Sin is the cause of illness and poverty. It is never God’s will that Christians ever be poor. Furthermore, Christians should embody the latest and finest the world has to offer because they represent the Good King who always blesses His Children.Nations are endowed by God with the unquestionable

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I often think about my connection to media and its effect on my relationships with others. I feel that its very important to submit the amount of time I spend interacting with various mediums both to God and to those I love and am responsible to. My lovely wife is particularly sensitive toward any of us in the family being "sucked in" to a virtual environment that robs us of each other.

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Steve Inskeep did his follow up interview with Ken Stein this morning. Comparing the two interviews, I have to say that the final one was a let-down, but a good one. Inskeep put Carter on the defensive and let him battle his way back. But in interviewing Stein, Inskeep just lets him talk--and Stein's accusations don't seem to hold enough weight to make it interesting.Inskeep: A layman might ask:

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Jer 12:88 "My inheritance has become to MeLike a lion in the forest;She has roared against Me;Therefore I have come to hate her.NASUDear God how do you come to oppose your people? Why do you use the word hate here? Surely Lord this is too strong of a term! In Philippians 4:8 hate is not among the list of things we should dwell on. So why is it in the Bible? Lord you know how much hate is in the

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Last night I heard someone say that American society allows everything and forgives nothing. I googled that and learned that it might just be a derivative of George Bernard Shaw's saying:Youth, which is forgiven everything, forgives itself nothing: age, which forgives itself everything, is forgiven nothing. Man and Superman, "Maxims for Revolutionists: Stray Sayings" (1903)Here's the entire

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