Empowerment – a Progressive Christian Reflection

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A progressive Christian reflection. “Zapped” by agape. Acts 2:1-21 May we all be zapped by that same love. And then step out and live the faith we believe. #pentecost #progressivechristian

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Saving Our Lives … and the World

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Does our faith require us to walk away from our lives, hop a plane to an impoverished nation, and start digging wells and building hospitals? Sometimes

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Why Is This Surprising?

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GOD PREFERS KIND ATHEISTS OVER HATEFUL CHRISTIANS – What’s bold or controversial about that??

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It’s a Heart Thing – Easter 2012

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Easter isn’t about “historical reality.” It’s about our living, inseverable, relationship with God. It’s not a rational, head thing. It’s a heart thing.

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A Living Covenant – Metanoia

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the spiritual transformation – metanoia – that we’re called to as Christians, summed up in the passages from Jeremiah and John, embodies the Easter Message

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The Face of Jesus Christ

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We may no longer believe in a personal Satan, but as a wise professor of mine who had been a stretcher bearer in the brutal trench warfare in World War I once said, “It looks mighty like it.”

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Into the Wilderness

In the mythos of the New Testament, Jesus’ forty days in the wilderness happens now.

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