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Month: October 2021

Death Turns The Tables

Death Turns The Tables

Jesus of Nazareth was known for shaking things up.  He had a positive gift for “comforting the afflicted and afflicting the comfortable” [a phrase credited to humorist Finley Dunne, in regard to the role of the newspaper].  Jesus turned conventional wisdom on its head all right, and he certainly knew how to speak bluntly, as when He told the religious leaders of His day: “…Ye are they which justify yourselves before men; but God knoweth your hearts: for that which is highly…

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Love At First Sight

Love At First Sight

A question often asked in romance novels, smarmy films, “speed dating” clubs, and everywhere bad pick up lines are sold is, “Do you believe in love at first sight?”  And while this question is asked in restaurants and bars all over town, by people of varying motivations, you can be pretty sure of one thing: the questioner is desperate, deluded, or disingenuous. Typically, the individual making this inquiry is either experiencing a psychotic break with reality, is already in love—with themself—or has…

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Bedtime Story For Grownups

Bedtime Story For Grownups

What follows is a bedtime story of a different kind—a bedtime story for grownups.  It is a true story, though the events occurred long ago. Background: history records that ten of the Hebrews’ twelve tribes had split into a northern kingdom, which called itself Israel.  The remaining two tribes comprised the southern kingdom of Judah, after the patriarch of the same name.  Judah’s homeland was called Judea and his descendants were known as “Jews.”  The great city of Jerusalem, in which stood the fabulous…

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Going By The Book

Going By The Book

At the risk of dating myself, I will tell you that I have always loved books.  As a young boy, I once entered a summer reading contest at our local library.  My sweet and patient mother (God rest her soul) walked me down there again and again, across the railroad tracks and over a bridge spanning the river, so that we could return one armful and pick up another.  I won the contest easily, reading well over 300 titles that summer.  [Admittedly, children’s books…

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Truer Words

Truer Words

Are the four gospels recorded in the Bible actual eyewitness accounts of the birth, life, death and resurrection of Jesus Christ, as they claim?  The language itself argues that they are indeed.  I invite you to examine with an open mind, clues found in the words used in the last (24th) chapter of the Gospel of Luke, to describe the events that transpired after Jesus’ burial.  It is both illustrative of and representative of what you will find in any of the four…

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