Tag: Christianity
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The Gospel that is Not
Today, NoSuperHeroes welcomes Chance Faulkner. He resides in Canada with his lovely wife. Chance is a recent newlywed and graduate of the Emmaus School of Biblical Studies. You can follow him on his blog and Twitter. He also runs a photography business. _________ We live in a time in history where, more than ever, it seems…
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Go South To Get North
I used to see bumper stickers reading “God is my Co-Pilot”. One of my youth staff had this on their beater of a car. Besides the fact it is cheesy Christian stuff, there is truth in this. Genesis shows us one of these incidents. Jacob wanted to fulfill God’s plan for him in the land…
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Weakness is Our Friend
Like many boys, my son, Garett, has a fascination with superheroes. One day my wife, Lindsey, was home with our boys. She dressed our son up in his cape, and let him head off to the land of make-believe. He flew around the house for a while before retreating to the back porch. It wasn’t…
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Scandal!
“Tim Tebow involved in a sex scandal.” “Billy Graham greatly overestimated the numbers saved at his crusades.” “Outspoken Christian Jeremy Lin is really a Buddhist.” People loves a good scandal. Anyone of the above headlines would cause a flurry of clicks to read the account of a hero falling. (For the record, they are all false.) The…
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Eat This Book
I’ve been reading Eugene Peterson’s Eat This Book recently. His analogy of us reading the Word of God was striking. I want to share it with you. “Years ago I owned a dog who had fondness for large bones…He gnawed on the bone, turned it over and around, licked it, worried it. Sometimes we could hear…