Osama Bin Laden, the leader of Al Qaida, died yesterday. The responses to this have interesting. Some take on a party like celebration. On the other extreme are those who vow vengeance. Some look at the killing as a case of justice, others an ideological battle, and still others as a geopolitical contest. At has …
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Suppose you wanted to build a house. You were given all of the raw materials, but (for some reason) you were only able to use one tool. Which tool would you choose? You could choose a saw. It is good to have things cut properly to size. Perhaps you could use the handle like a …
Jesus (in Matthew 13) described "hard soil"-- hearts that are unreceptive to God's message. But one can't assume that those hearts that are "hard soil" are all the same. Commonly those in this category can be looked as those who are invested in a different faith to the point that they reject a new faith. …
"In our society, the way we think we really come to know something is to doubt it, to question and test it, to dissect it (requiring us first to kill it), to analyze it by breaking it into smaller and smaller pieces-- pieces that are smaller than we are, pieces we can control and feel …