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Dealing with the pain of infertility
I’ve really been impressed and appreciative of all the things Jason Kovacs does. It’s been great getting to know him and his ministry over the last several months via his blogs and Twitter ().
Last week, Jason shared a great post on what he learned from the story of Hannah (1 Samuel 1) and her husband [...]
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5 Myths of Community
Found a great podcast featuring Mark Scandrette during my break. In it, he addresses 5 Myths of Community.
“If we want real community like the early church… we must be willing to embrace hurt and suffering… because love is costly.”
Sounds very counter-intuitive to the American dream and empire.
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Do we transform our pain … or transmit it?
Brian McLaren shares some great thoughts from Fr. Richard Rohr ::
Is your religion helping you to transform your pain? If it does not, it is junk religion. We all have pain—it’s the human situation, we all carry it in a big black bag behind us and it gets heavier as we get older: by betrayals, [...]
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#myfavoritebiblestory
Not sure who started it, or where it came from, but found out about the #myfavoritebiblestory Twitter meme last night at dinner.
The basic gist of it is “What’s your favorite Bible story” but complete with irony and sarcasm.
What’s really interesting is to see how folks have responded. While many of the tweets have come from [...]
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Love the sinner…
How many of you can finish this statement:
“Love the sinner….”
Tony Campolo says “wherever someone is hurting, there is Jesus.”
But then he also finishes the above statement. For those who say, “I love the sinner, but I hate his sin.” His response is that “that is just the opposite of what Jesus says…. Jesus says, ‘love [...]
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My enemies are men like me
I read this great thought and quote this morning while reflecting on Brian’s message yesterday about forgiveness.
Someone has written that hatred is like drinking a cup of poison and waiting for the person you hate to die. It doesn’t harm the person you hate, or at least not in any way like the havoc it [...]
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