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Lukewarm
Lukewarm Christians make me vomit. popular saying among evangelical Christians, attributed to Jesus based on Revelation 3:16 Meh. That’s the lukewarm response to just about everything. It indicates indifference or minimal investment. A lukewarm Christian lacks spiritual fervor and zeal. At least, that’s what I’ve always thought and what I’ve always heard from sermons on…
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The Curse of Wealth
Jesus looked around and said to his disciples, “How hard it is for the rich to enter the kingdom of God!” Mark 10:23 Mark 10 tells two seemingly unrelated back-to-back stories. In the first, Jesus’ disciples try to keep children from bothering the Teacher. Jesus rebukes them and welcomes and blesses the children. In the…
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Poor in Spirit
Blessed are the poor in spirit, for theirs is the kingdom of heaven. Matthew 5:3 (NIV) When Luke records this dictum, he leaves off “in spirit,” so it becomes a saying about poverty. Yet what benefit, what good is there in being poor or in having an attitude of poverty? To answer this, I think…
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America’s Poor Are Rich
Read and comment on my blog. Christina Johnson, my nephew’s wife, has a blog where she normally shares pictures and stories about her new baby. But yesterday she posted a full blown rant. Having spent a year in Davao, Philippines, she has had some first hand experience seeing real third-world poverty, and her assessment of…
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Christians Caused Crash?
Read and comment on my blog. The headline on this month’s issue of The Atlantic piqued my interest. “Did Christianity Cause the Crash? How Preachers Are Spreading a Gospel of Debt,” it read. I couldn’t wait to dig in. I wasn’t far into the article, however, before I discovered that here was no far-reaching indictment…
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