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Rob Bell and Hell Pt. 2: Wrestling With God
By Steve on March 7, 2013
A couple posts back I wrote about an evening I had last week discussing Rob Bell’s debate on “hell” with Christian author Adrian Warrnock. That post generated more than my usual humble levels of traffic…
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Rob Bell…And Hell!
By Steve on March 2, 2013
Last night a group of friends and acquaintances gathered together in Central Hong Kong. It was a Friday night, the work week was over, and so they came together to drink a little wine, eat…
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Hype-Grace?: A Response to Michael Brown
By Steve on February 23, 2013
In a recent article gaining a lot of traction on Charisma News, Dr. Michael Brown has taken issue with, as he would say, “hyper-grace”. As I read the article I am struck by how his…
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Finding Nemo…(and Adam)
By Steve on February 8, 2013
Having a two year old again means I get to watch all the Disney / Pixar movies again… …and again…and again… Toy Story and CARS have been Ethan George’s favorites to date but now there…
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All You Need Is Love…but
By Steve on January 29, 2013
One day a group guys are listening to Jesus teach and a lawyer (yes it was a lawyer) asked him a question. “Teacher, which is the great commandment in the law?” Jesus said to him, “‘You…
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“Does God Really Not Like Me?”
By Steve on January 3, 2013
Just before the Christmas holiday I wrote a piece on Christ as “God with us”. I’ve been mulling that idea over in my mind through endless renditions of Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels…
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Les Miserables: A Story and A Review
By Steve on December 28, 2012
Tragedy…Sacrifice…Redemption…Grace. I don’t think there is a story told that embodies the human condition nor reflects its salvation more than Victor Hugo’s Les Miserables; and Tom Hooper’s theatrical release of the Schonberg-Boublil musical more than…
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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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Apollo 8 Reminds Us that God Says the Earth is Good!
By Steve on December 19, 2012
In December of 1968, the crew of the American spacecraft Apollo 8 became the first human beings to travel to and orbit the moon.Today we have grown used to seeing views of the earth from…
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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?”…