Theology
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“Churchese” — ever heard of it? It’s that special language often used among the redeemed and sometimes accompanied by a wink and a nudge. I first heard about Churchese when I started seminary, a whopping 10 years ago this fall. It basically involves using a lot of words that have primary reference to the Bible…
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I just got home from our Wednesday evening classes at church. For one month every summer my church holds arts, theology and/or lifeskills classes on Wednesday evenings. It’s a great event I get the honor of helping to plan, organize and execute. We usually have people from the community come to our facility and it’s…
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I just watched a news report tonight on ABC’s Nightline that explored the subject of miracles, featuring a town in eastern Europe that claims to have regular appearances by the Virgin Mary. It’s part of a larger project by Bill Weir, one of the anchors and a fine reporter, that airs Wednesday night. Now, about…
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Baseball is a marvelous game. It rewards acts of greatness — say, hitting a ball 400 feet over the center field fence — and acts of failure. Failure? Rewarded? Yep. A good Major League player averages about 2.5 hits for every 10 times at the plate. A great player gets 3 hits every 10 times…
J.C. Newton 