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A friend of 30 plus years sent this to me. I thought you would want to see it. It raises the question— what is normal in God’s eyes, and what is a handicap in God’s eyes? GOD LIVES UNDER THE BED Don’t start reading this one until you’ve got more than 3 or4 minutes to…

Without question, of all the lectures I give, the one the prompts the most questions, sometimes even an avalanche of questions is my lecture on what Jesus and Paul actually say about singleness, marriage, and divorce. Obviously this is a sensitive subject since the church in our age, like the world,is experiencing so much brokenness,…

Just a brief announcement to let you know that once again I will be leading a tour to two of the Lands of the Bible on behalf of Asbury Seminary. We will be spending a week in Israel and a week in Turkey between June 19th-July 3rd 2006. Inasmuch as we will have only limited…

What follows here is a quotation of a part of a sermon that John Chrysostom, perhaps the greatest preacher of the early church gave on a portion of Hebrews and Mt. 5.2. “‘Give to him who begs from you and do not refuse him who would borrow from you.’ Stretch out your hand; let it…

Bill Murray’s latest offering, Broken Flowers, which won highest honors at the Cannes Film Festival, is now circulating in the theaters in a limited release. Like his release from a couple of years back, ‘Lost in Translation’, this is a serious film, as Murray continues to demonstrate he can do drama as well as comedy.…

It is always a surprise, and sometimes very painful to have one’s bubble burst. This is all the more so when it has to do with something or someone a persons loves deeply and is deeply commited to. Take for example our country. It is not a very old country by global standards. Our less…

Well it was bound to happen. We now have the ultimate answer to the trivia question— What do the fundamentalist Christian TV preacher and the head of Al Quaeda in Iraq have in common? Answer— they both think that Hurricane Katrina is a judgment of God on American sin! Yes, I kid you not, today…

CRACKS IN THE WALL Cracks in the wall,There by design, Prayers on plain paperOne of them mine Rabbis are chanting,Torah held high, Sunlight is fading,In the blue sky. Guards are watching,Passing the time, Nodding acquaintanceWith the sublime. Herod’s temple,All that remains Limestone platform,Withstands the strain, Mosque’s gold domeShines in the light, Whose God is honoredBy…

What shall we say as Christians about the recent devastation in New Orleans, Biloxi, Gulport, Mobile, Hattisburg and various other cities? Shall we just chalk it up to ‘mother nature’ gone haywire? Shall we say, with the insurance companies it was “an act of God”? If we see it as an act of God, should…

One of the more notable and growing phenomena in our age of religious broadcasting is connected to the growing popularity of the ‘Ipod’ and similar devices. It is now possible to download sermons, lectures, musicales from church onto your Ipod and listen while you work, jog, play, or drive. Some services now have up to…
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