A couple of days ago our center here (Bukal Life Care) showed a video. It is "Healing the Shame that Binds You" a lecture by John Bradshaw done back in the mid-80s. Although I had seen it several times before, this time one thing struck me particularly. Bradshaw spoke of people who can't really enjoy …
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At the bottom of this article is a link on Online Debating. It points out that it is better to seek clarification (understanding) than persuasion. I like to think about 4 major types of conversation: The article points out that debate (or I listed as "apologetics/argument") has problems. Positively, it is likely to be better …
In PART ONE, I spoke of restoration. But sometimes a building passes the point of no return (or of no repair). When I lived on Woodchuck Hill, we had an old barn. The silo was gone... one of the first memories I had was when my dad pulled over the silo when I was about …
Continue reading Redemption and Old Rundown Buildings, Part 2
I was raised up on a hill in the Allegheny foothills known as Woodchuck Hill. While in many parts of the world civilization/development is taking over land, here things have gone the opposite way as old farms disappeared, people moved to the cities or to where jobs were, and the forest took over. On the …
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The Prosperity Gospel and Its Challenge to Mission in Our Time | The Lausanne Global Conversation.
The term prophet is used in different ways by different people. Technically, a prophet is simply someone who gives the message of God... outside of the local church hierarchy. But it is commonly used by people as someone who "gives new and authoritative revelation to the people." While I don't care for this definition (neither …
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My son is taking a class "Mythology and Folklore" at his university here in the Philippines. They have been studying some creation stories here in the Philippines. Some are etiological, while some are more entertaining. One struck me especially. It is "Tungkung Langit and Alunsina"... a creation story from Panay Island. A number of Philippine …
Quote of Lesslie Newbigin. "The Open Secret," chapter 4: The supreme parable, the supreme deed by which the reign of God is revealed and hidden, is the cross. When Israel rejected Jesus' call to repent and believe the good news of the reign of God, there were two roads which (humanly speaking) he might have …