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A Fear of Whales
Luddites for Jesus
By
rgaffney
Have you heard about the recent study about how people are increasingly disconnected from each other because of the Facebook and txting? Or how traffic accidents are up because people are Twittering while driving? And attendance at church is down because the kids these days can’t tear themselves away from Worlds or Warcraft. Our lives…
Silver and Samaritans Pt 3
By
rgaffney
In Part 1 I talked about The healing of the beggar in Acts 3 and the three parts to peters approach, Focusing on the first part: Eye contact. Paying attention. In Part 2 I identified the second part, as a willingness to give away everything rather than what it seems at first: an excuse to…
Silver and Samaritans Pt 2
By
rgaffney
I want to continue a discussion I started about Acts chapter 3. Particularly I began to highlight 3 unusual things about Peter’s response to the beggar he meets. Previously I highlighted the simple fact that Peter looked at him. I don’t look at beggars, do you? Peter paid the beggar more attention than the beggar…
Silver and Samaritans Pt 1
By
rgaffney
I published an article last week that was based upon the good Samaritan parable that Jesus told. I did the best I could to stay faithful to the story. Without adding any elements to the story simply for dramatic effect. I just replaced all of the 1st century references in the story with 21st century…
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