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An Enemy Among Us

Posted in Battle, Home, Identity, Jesus, Journey, Longing, Salvation, tagged , on February 27, 2009 | 6 Comments »

I realize lately that when I write, I am consistently harping on the reality of busyness and its role in our lives.  This blog is as much journal as anything, a locale I come to occasionally to offer what’s on my heart and mind, and this topic is apparently a consistently weighty one for me.
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This World: Battleground

Posted in Battle, Counsel, Journey, tagged , , , , on November 1, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

A. W. Tozer has given one of his books a great title, “This World: Playground or Battleground?“  It’s an insightful book, and Tozer spends page after page unpacking that one question he asks with the title.  We’ve heard not to judge a book by its cover.  I think this one judges me, waiting for my [...]

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After the Fray

Posted in Battle, Holiness, Journey, Salvation, Story, tagged , , , on June 16, 2008 | Leave a Comment »

In How the Irish Saved Civilization, Thomas Cahill paints a picture of ancient Irish culture by discussing Tain Bo Cuailnge, an Irish prose epic. In the story, the hero-warriors Cuchulainn (pronounced koo-hool-n) and Ferdia are foster brothers who love and fight for one another. They trained together under the same master and fight beside one [...]

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A Few Precious Words

Posted in Battle, Expression, Jesus, New Covenant, tagged on March 7, 2008 | 3 Comments »

Todd Nettleton, a friend and author of Justice For All, wrote on his blog this week, “If you choose carefully the right words, you don’t need nearly so many.” He was highlighting Abraham Lincoln’s Gettysburg Address, which every junior high student studies and often memorizes in history class some 150 years after it was [...]

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The (Bloody) Way of Love

Posted in Battle, Counsel, Love on November 5, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

God has brought something really affirming to me this morning. I can at times come so close to being taken out by the brokenness around me. I feel it like a tremor in my bones sometimes, particularly with those closest to me. I hold to redemption — I’m alive by way of that great work [...]

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The Power of the Church

Posted in Battle, Counsel, Fellowship, Story, tagged , , on October 31, 2007 | Leave a Comment »

A few months ago I attended an AA meeting as an exercise for a class. I went as an “observer,” though my experience drew me to understand I was more than that. I wrote the following afterwards:
I wasn’t sure what to expect as I entered the room. I had just met one of the regulars [...]

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Too Close for Comfort

Posted in Battle, Glory, Home, Invitation, Jesus, New Covenant, Postmodernism, Salvation, Scripture, tagged , , , , on August 20, 2007 | 2 Comments »

O LORD, our Lord,
how majestic is your name in all the earth!
You have set your glory
above the heavens.When I consider your heavens,
the work of your fingers,
the moon and the stars,
which you have set in place,
what is man that you are mindful of him,
the son of man that you care for him?
-Psalm 8:1, 3-4
Can you imagine [...]

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