Category: book
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dallas willard on “the blessed”
A friend recommended I read the fourth chapter of Dallas Willard’s The Divine Conspiracy in preparation for the sermon on mercy this coming Sunday. The other day I read the following. This is the gospel for a silly world, all the more needed because the silly is made a matter of life and death for…
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the culturally savvy christian (1)
On this blog I’ve made no secret of my love of reading.., click the library thing link on the sidebar for a partial list of my library. Yesterday I realized that I currently have 5 books going. I may have a problem. Perhaps someone will stage an intervention for me. One of the books on…
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ray’s random thoughts: humility (pt 2)
Ray is PCC’s Senior Pastor. Friends, Humility and How I Achieved It is the title of a book I’m thinking about writing. Ok, just kidding. The weird thing about humility is that as soon as you suggest you have it, you’ve lost it. Anyway, as you know, yesterday I shared some Scripture texts I had…
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harry potter and the death of God
Lev Grossman wrote a fascinating little article in last week’s Time magazine titled Who Dies in Harry Potter? God. As one who has only seen the Potter movies I’m mostly removed from the current hype surrounding tonight’s release of the final book in J.K. Rowling’s series.
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another quote from “simply christian”
When we see ourselves in the light of Jesus’ type of kingdom, and realize the extent to which we have been living by a different code altogether, we realize, perhaps for the first time, how far we have fallen short of what we were made to be. This realization is what we call “repentance,” a…
David W. Swanson 