It’s been said that some have encountered Christianity and found it lacking.  Indeed, I often sympathize with those who have chosen to walk away: in church I am bored, in religion I am dissatisfied, and I rarely understand the terminology many Christians use.  American Christianity, as I see it, is utterly confusing based on what [...]

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Today the Roman Catholic Church and the Southern Baptist Convention announced that they both hate pollution and that environmental issues matter.
Catholics and Baptists. Stepping toward Green. On the same day.
The end is near.
PS: I think this is great news! The part about the environment, not the apocalypse part. Here’s something I [...]

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“For you were straying like sheep, but have now returned to the Shepherd and Overseer of your souls.” (1 Peter 2:25, ESV)
In several particular instances in the New Testament, the people of God are alluded to as sheep (John 10:1-5, Acts 20:28-29, and 1 Peter 2:25 are the primary examples). The sheep-shepherd theme is [...]

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Consider the implications of John 1:1-18—the Creator God we meet in Genesis, who existed before everything, came to Earth in the form of Jesus to live full of grace and truth as the light that eradicates darkness, humbled himself to the point of death on the cross and raised himself up on the third day [...]

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