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What Does It Mean To Be Saved? Part 3
By Steve on January 16, 2013
The Thief on the Cross In part 3 of this series on salvation I want to take a look at the interaction between Jesus and the thief that was crucified along side of him. One…
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What Does It Mean To Be Saved? Part 2
By Steve on January 15, 2013
In part 1 of this series I looked at Jesus declaring salvation to Zacchaeus’ house after a meal at the chief tax collector’s house. In part 2 we’ll take a look at Jesus’ parable of…
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What Does It Mean To Be “Saved”? Part 1
By Steve on January 12, 2013
What does it mean to be “saved”? A few days ago a friend of mine was noting some of the qualities of a mutual acquaintance of ours. It went something like this; “Yeah, she’s bright,…
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When The Church Starts to Look Like “Harry Potter”
By Steve on January 9, 2013
What does God really care about? That is something that I have been thinking about for the past few weeks. This morning a Facebook friend sent around this quote from Christian scholar Scot McKnight; “Atonement…
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James Dobson, Fear, & The Shooting in Connecticut
By Steve on December 27, 2012
About 10 years ago a Christian friend gave me a CD with a teaching by James Dobson on it. Dobson at the time was rallying Christians to support a judge who refused to remove a…
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When Tragedy Strikes!
By Steve on December 16, 2012
20 children and 6 adults shot dead at an elementary school! A tragic event that Americans are seeing happen with uncomfortable frequency. And now the collective question rises up from the nation… WHY? Asking “why?”…
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“How Do I Get Close to God?”
By Steve on December 14, 2012
I recently had a talk with someone who asked if they could come see me. The guy had had some challenges in life and was trying to get “closer to God” to address those challenges. …
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Weekend Update Nov 25, 2012
By Steve on November 25, 2012
Film making in Hong Kong I love movies so much it was only a matter of time before I started making them myself…and Hong Kong is a great city to shoot in! It’s a Christmas…
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Beyond the Pale 2.0
By Steve on October 26, 2012
Welcome to the launch of the new “Beyond the Pale“. I was really happy I found out how to import the posts from the original “blogspot” site over to the new home here at www.stevehackman.net. …
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Hello world!
By Steve on September 6, 2012
Welcome to WordPress. This is your first post. Edit or delete it, then start blogging!