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A Different Flash Mob
Detroit Mass Mob fills pews in struggling churches By The Canadian Press on October 24, 2014 DETROIT – Detroit has seen half of its residents skip town over the past 50 years, and the fallout has...
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Love and Emotion
Love, heavenly love, the love which Jesus commands us to love, is not an emotion. For many religious people the absence of a feeling of hate means they love. Or because their denominational or...
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A Place of Death and Life
A hospital is a dangerous place. Diseases, traumas, and pain all concentrate into one place. If you are healthy and visit you risk catching a disease. If you are very sick you risk contracting an...
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Why Blog?
And so it comes down to this. Why do I blog? I like to get likes, but even more to get comments which help me focus on what I missed, or be affirmed I got it right. But, if I was where I should be in...
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Ignite Life
I was given a copy of a book for Christmas. It’s too intimately autobiographical for me in many places, but like all Christian spirituality it has gems for even people like me. “I love how the Gospels...
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Lent Work
“A person may think their own ways are right, but the LORD weighs the heart” Proverbs 21:2 Do you suffer from spiritual avarice? That is to say, you seek the pleasure that comes from doing things...
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In the End Trust God
In a cloud of forgetfulness Christians today, at times, do not grasp (or believe) why Jesus opposed religious people. This is a big part of why I started this blog. Culture and religious systems exert...
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Pentecost
We went to a Methodist congregation yesterday for Pentecost Sunday. They didn’t mention Pentecost. No reading from Acts. The Pastor was on a series and that was number 8 and he just continued. Other...
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Jesus Is Real – Religion Is Not
The reason I started this blog rests with the truth that Jesus is real. Meeting, living with and for Creator, supervised by Paraclete, goes beyond mere intellectual assent. Now any relationship...
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God’s Mercy Again
So life took a little twist Tuesday. I was offered, and accepted, a full-time job for which I had not applied. A site for which I was trained was taken over by a different security company. Since I...
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My Reality
I hesitate to give this part of my testimony, but I am led to believe it will benefit someone. The motivation for telling my story is that God is real. That may sound mundane, but I meet so many people...
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Seeking, But Not Finding
So, in less than ten years we have seen what institutional religion has to offer. Through a fake hearing which saw “my” denomination spend thousands of dollars to build a fake case against me, my...
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This Is What God Says
The word of God came to me while I was asleep, and it awakened me. I saw a mousetrap and a TV, and a voice called out to me, “Which one is food?” I answered, “Neither of them is food.” But the voice...
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Submit to Whom?
In this blog I make a distinction between religion and spirituality. Religion is a “unified system of beliefs and practices relative to sacred things” (Emil Durkheim, The Elementary Forms of the...
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Greater Things
Jesus “can do infinitely more than we can ask or imagine.“ “The great danger in all such assemblies is that in our consciousness of having our Bible, and our past experience of God’s leading, and our...
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Many (most?) Christians express confidence in their loyalty to how they worship God, the congregation they belong to or the denomination they subscribe to or their self-righteous declaration of freedom...
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In the last while I have had so many punches to the soul that I am weary. What do I mean by that? This is all rooted in what I have termed “The Eden Syndrome” which is when people play God. I have...
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What would Jesus do? A moment of clarity was granted to me. When we ask that, and then pursue some behaviour or action that we deem to be Christ-like, we risk declaring that there is a single, and only...
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How do I know when to be a protester? I have protested against the government, very publicly, and this is the basis I follow for knowing when to protest and when to adapt. This is not theory, dogma or...
View ArticleValid Versus Vapid #2 – Other Sheep
It is not difficult to differentiate between teachings vital to our faith and holiness, and those which are for specific occasions or times. Simply put, teachings that are about Church organization,...
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