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Recently, Jamey Johnson posted "A Man’s Love Affair…"  It’s about how we men love our automobiles.  I’d be embarrassed to admit how much I think about cars.  I read about them, test drive them and compare the 0-60 stats. Audi’s are my weakness.  Just check out the R8

Remove the mystery.  Remove the romance. Freshness in any relationship has elements of expectation and mystery.  They are the stuff of romance.  If we are going to remember our First Love we will need to guard the embers and stoke the flames of this love.  This will require that we let God be God:  mysterious…

I’m am in the midst of a second round of TV withdrawals.  About a year ago my wife and I rearranged our house to maximize family relationships.  In the process we moved our television upstairs out of the main traffic flow of the house, unhooked it from cable and attached a set of rabbit ears.…

God asks the question… "…for who is he who will devote himself to be close to me?" Jeremiah 30.21b I know that this question is rhetorical and the context is messianic but all I know is that it has become my life’s goal.  To live a life devoted to being close to God…is there any…

The blog of Leadership Journal/Christianity Today, a controversial album by one of the greats and a book that is the theory behind the praxis of reaching this place we call the USA…

James Lucas gives us the ingredients to embracing the paradoxes of God and living with the mystery.  His components in part are… a truth an opposing truth a willingness:  We choose to press the two truths against each other as hard as we can. a tension:  We look for the tension, and rejoice in the…

Lucas describes an ancient way of interpreting the Bible, one that he argues Jesus used, it’s called "halakic reasoning."  Simply put it is holding "both strands of a paradox in tension and balance, knowing that with God both sides must be true.  It’s the process of firmly grabbing both ideas in paradox and then merging…

This weeks Blog, Album and Book of the week includes action figures, a classic and a book with an an interesting question…

James Lucas in his book, "Knowing the Unknowable God:  How Faith Thrives on Divine Mystery," calls it the shocking truth.  What is it? God is still hiding things from us and this creates mystery and tensions for us that we will not be able to resolve. "It is the glory of God to conceal a…

The kingdom of God is about mystery.  It is about a God who has purposely hid that which is most vital to life. There is a reason Jesus calls us to "seek" the kingdom.  It isn’t that it is lost, rather it has been hidden by God himself. "At that time Jesus said, ‘I praise…
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