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Pro-Wrestling Goes to Church Part I
I’ve wanted to write something like this for a decade and maybe I have. It’s hard to keep track of 323 blog entries. But I’ve wanted to write about how the world of professional wrestling internal and external operate as an at times ideal version on the Church. Now I know what you might be…
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Sons & Fathers and Wrestling With God: Audio Tapes (Trauma Part I)
There is a passage in the Bible that is at the crux of creation, redemption, salvation, and monotheism and the theme of it is replayed throughout Scripture: fathers giving their son’s over to death. No not God the Father giving over Jesus, no not God giving Adam and Eve over to death when a simple…
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Sons & Fathers and Wrestling with God: A Picture
I found a picture. Well, truth be told I found lots of pictures. Well, truth be told I found lots of everything. I spent the summer cleaning and going through Dad’s house. There was and is so much. So much from my grandma, so much from him, so much from me. There was so much,…
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The Sun, The Sea, And Me
I have not written in a long time. Maybe 2 1/2 months to some is not a long time. Maybe it’s not a long time and just feels like a long time. I guess it depends on what you’re waiting for or enduring. I think vitamin D and water are good for you. I think…
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Where is the Christ of the Christian?
Profession of faith is a scary thing. In some countries it could cost someone their life. In this country, it gives permission for people to say they believe in Christ and practice things that are the antithesis of what he did. They lead churches that look and behave more like corporate business meetings with a…
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Allowance for Lament
I have been generally struggling with many Christians seeming inability to deal with lament. I don’t know whether it is the trap of the positive thought movement or if people just fear emotions other than happiness, but I’m finding people are way quicker to condemn individuals for lamenting than for expressing happy idyllic skewed images…
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He Intends to Pass you By
It only comes up once in the 3 gospels the story is mentioned. Only in Mark. Matthew is concerned about Peter also walking on water and the implications of where Peter lacked faith. John focuses on the immediacy of arriving at a destination when Jesus shows up. And Mark like John doesn’t talk about Peter…
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When What’s Broken Keeps Breaking
A friend had a picture for me about a year ago of a heart bleeding intermingled with broken glass. Amidst the brokenness was the perosnal hope that I could reach in and fix the brokenness or at least save my heart. But I could not, only God could. Ultimately, the goal of the picture was…
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Coming Soon in Revelation 22
The alleviation of suffering, the elimination of things cursed, the visible light and throne of God and the acess to life eternal from a once guarded Tree. And Jesus himself saying He is coming soon. This is the culmination of Revelation 22. The end has a new incomprehensibly delightful begininng. When I had previosuly echoed…
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Protected: Better to Have Lost, Then to never have Known
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The Long Rebuild
The Reconstructed 