Author: David
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Hope Springs Eternal
Well, I finally admitted defeat and had a second phone line installed into our house. Defeat? you might ask… Well, I was holding out for DSL or Cable, or some type of broadband access, but it just wasn’t happening in my area. In fact, the phone guy told me I’m only about half a mile…
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What If The Story was Different?
As I was pondering the account of Joseph (or the story of Joseph) in Genesis 39, I started wondering, what would have happened if Joseph would have given in to Potiphar’s wife’s advances? After all, by not giving in and thus standing up for what was right he ended up in prision. How different would…
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They Like Jesus
And here we are getting at the root of the matter. A Jesus who does not look like us, doesn’t talk like us, doesn’t dress like us, and lives according to a different culture is alien to us. He is very hard to identify with. Instead of changing ourselves into an image more like…
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Biblical Scholarship….
From time to time I’ve struggled with scholarship. Now, I find myself in a doctoral program where, you guessed it, I have to deal with scholarly material. Part of my struggle has been because the Bible seems like such a short, in many ways, book. After all, it has been around for a very long…
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Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt
Web 2.0 Show – Episode 8 – Tara Hunt That is what was said in an interview on the Web 2.0 show. I know a show about the web, isn’t about the church, yet, it seems, like businesses see trends in society before the church notices them. The comment causes me to think of postmodernism…