What is it about movies nowadays that have us actually routing for the bad guy? After watching the second movie with my friends, they both exclaimed that they had only watched the movie because of Loki. I turned to them in complete surprise. “But, Loki is the bad guy, and not the main character, and you can’t trust anything he…
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I have been on the outskirts of several outreaches where churches banned certain music, discredited our current movie culture, or burned books. And I while I understand it entirely, I also find it impossible to live by. I think the main goal of each of these movements was to take something that was a clear idol in the culture and try to get Christians not fall under that same spell by avoiding it completely. In actuality, it just makes me unaware of the problems in the culture I live in, pushing away the glimpses of beauty and promise that are there, and avoiding the very people I was meant to serve and love.
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Several of my computer programs crashed recently, and I sat with a local businessman at Lemur Technology trying to figure out what I did wrong and how to go forward. Should I avoid certain websites, get a different antivirus, or something else? His recommendation was more general than specific action steps. He said, “Treat your laptop like a vital commodity of your…
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“A strong man who has known power his whole life does not realize its value, but a weak man knows the value of strength and knows compassion. I hope you will stay who you are… a good man.”
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I see this topic of “faith at work” floating around sometimes nowadays, much more often then I did ten years ago, and I think it’s a wonderful topic. However, it’s always interesting how this discussion actually goes after the title. I think far too often, people are confusing their vocabulary, so let’s discuss some things it’s not. It’s not called “Faith and Work”. If…
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