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I’ve got a book that you need (or one like it): Ginny Olson’s Teenage Girls: Exploring Issues Adolescent Girls Face and Strategies to Help Them. Recently Kris and I were at a store, we went to the counter, and I observed on the wrist of the 20-yr old young woman slash marks: “Cutting,” I said…

What are the obligations of friendship? What can a friend reasonably expect of a friend? I’ve not thought much about this, other than in the quiet moments of visceral responses when something happens in a relationship to a friend. So, I’m quite impressed with what Epstein, in his Friendship, turns up.

Three voices are groaning at the same time, and if you listen you will hear each. If you listen, you will hear not just a groaning but the groaning pains of a woman in labor trying to give birth. Who is groaning?

Had the Apostle Paul lived to see the war of Rome with Israel in 66-73 AD, what would he have done? Here are some considerations:

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The third section of Spencer Burke’s A Heretic’s Guide to Eternity is called “Living in Grace: Mystical Responsibility.” Again, I’ll provide here the main lines of his thinking:

Within the emerging movement there has been a much-needed shift from emphasizing future redemption to present redemption. It is mistaken to speak of this as a shift from “heaven” to “kingdom,” and by the latter think one can equate kingdom with earthly realities. As Jesus uses the term, kingdom is both a present and future…

Environmentalism? Where do you stand? Are you green, dark green, light green, or something else? If your tendency is to move to another blog because this post is about something you are not interested in, well maybe you should hang out a while and read this. In R. Balmer’s Thy Kingdom Come, chp 5, he…

How do you know God’s will? Well, Mike Breaux — who is one of my favorite preachers — preached about this last weekend at Willow Creek and I think his points, even if not new, are spot-on:

Paul is willing to let the penny drop and one place he does is that the indicator that a person is God’s is if they have the Spirit — and one knows if one has the Spirit by the “witness of the Spirit with our spirit” (Rom 8:16).
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