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Fear, Freedom and the Gospel in The King’s Speech
Happy weekend to you, dear reader. I hope you are having a good time with your significant other, or celebrating National Singles Awareness day/weekend by writing snarky comments on blogs. Whatever the case may be, thanks for stopping by. If you should find yourself looking for a good movie to take your wife, husband, boyfriend, […]
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Solitude, Community and Man-Eating Mammals
By far the most approachable and quite possibly the most important book Dietrich Bonhoeffer wrote is a little work called Life Together. This book is something of a workable manual on how the Christian life can be lived together in community. In one of the simplest statements he ever wrote, he said: Whoever cannot […]
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The Gospel According to Will Ferrell
Comedy or tragedy? That is the question that lies before this story’s protagonist. Harold, played by none other than Will Ferrell. Harold is an IRS agent whose attention to detail is only matched by his fear of truly living his life. Because Harold fears pain, rejection, chaos, and most of all, death, he creates an […]
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The Comfort of God being God
Well, I hope the last couple of posts have been helpful for all of us struggling to believe that God is for us. The fact that God loves and saves people not according to our good choices or moral uprightness but just because he wants to is one of those realities that turns our hearts […]
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The Paradoxical Truth
One feature of German theologians that attracts me so much is their love for, and indeed in many cases, reliance upon paradox. A paradox is fancy word for a statement that seems self-contradictory. The first example that comes to my mind is Martin Luther’s statement: a Christian is the perfectly free lord of all, subject […]
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The Simple Truth
I used to be an arrogant punk. Now, I know this comes as a great surprise and shock to the reader, especially those who have only got to know me in the last couple of years. You are thinking to yourself, hey, I know Casey, where does he get off saying he used to be […]
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Our Proud Older Brother
Those of us who grew up in and around the church naturally associate the term “pride” with the phrase “older brother”. Many times we do this due to personal experience. As a younger brother, I can certainly attest that there is a pride about all older siblings that pervades their dealings with their younger comrades. […]
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