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These are some of my musings about God’s mysteries. Love to hear some of yours.
We’re all beleaguered by the appalling realities of terrorism, mass shootings, and suicide bombings these days. I’m personally frustrated that I don’t have any solutions and don’t even know exactly how to pray about these genocidal maniacs who have brutally murdered hundreds of thousands of innocent people, driven millions from their homes and countries, and …
Continue reading "A Christian Response to Terrorism (Part 1 of 4)"
In Parts 1 and 2 we’ve talking about name-calling and its harmful effects on both the name-called, the name caller, and everyone who hears the names that people are called. Here are a few more concluding thoughts of mine on the subject. Please share some of your thoughts. Labels make it easier to hurt …
In Part 1 I talked about the bad habit even followers of Jesus get into, the hell-inspired practice of name calling. I offer here a further list of the harmful effects of labeling one another. It’s particularly libelous when we mislabel someone, intentionally or not. Those who were afraid of the work of MLK or …
We’ve covered a bunch of ground since we began our Good Samaritan talks. We’ve looked at how there is no more Ideal Samaritan than Jesus, how, in stark contrast to him we’re all pretty much Inadequate Samaritans with quite a replete repertoire of excuses for it, and then how we might get on a trajectory …
Continue reading "How Improving Samaritans influence other people toward the “Ideal Samaritan”"
After all this talk of good samaritanism, the sixty-four-thousand-dollar question is “How do we get there?” I know I should be more rather than less like Jesus, which is different than being more or less like him. I know that I should be on an “Improving Samaritan” trajectory. I want to be the kind of …
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