Tag: Gospel
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The Man in Black and the God of the Light: Johnny Cash, Addiction & Jesus
If we walk in the light as he is in the light, we have fellowship with one another, and the blood of Jesus his Son cleanses us from all sin. -1 John 1:7 After that meteoric rise to the top, Johnny Cash was well on his way. Over the next ten years, he would travel […]
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Meeting an Old Friend: Johnny Cash, the Man in Black
I wear the black for the poor and the beaten down; Living in the hopeless hungry side of town. I wear it for the prisoner who has long paid for his crime; But is there because he’s a victim of the times. -Johnny Cash, the Man in Black In the Summer of 1969, […]
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Paging Clark Kent: Heroism and the Gospel of Jesus
When you were a kid did want to be Superman when you grew up? Sure you have. Personally, I was partial to Batman but who can really beat Superman? We all have this insatiable yearning for something bigger and better. The world needs fixing. Society needs changing. Everybody can feel this and we hear […]
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About a Boy: Community, Isolation and the Gospel of Jesus
In my opinion, all men are islands. And what’s more, now’s the time to be one. This is an island age. Now, you may very well dismiss this statement out of hand, pointing out the fact that nobody can do life alone. You may also identify with the cultural malady that such an idea points […]
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Dr. Kevorkian and a People of Innocence
When I was a kid I remember all the talk of euthanasia, mercy killings and senior-citizen suicides that were being conducted by one Jack Kevorkian. Outside of the special I saw on him a year or so ago I have had little reason to consider his positions on the sanctity and dignity of human life, […]
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Illusion, Medicine and Reality: Woody Allen’s Gospel
Sometimes the illusions work better than the medicine. –Woody Allen Over the past month or so when I go to the Red Box to pick out a movie for the night, I have noticed a Woody Allen film that came out last year called You Will Meet a Tall, Dark Stranger. Well, last night I […]
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The Way of Jesus: Following Person over Principle
Follow me, run along behind me! That is all. To follow in his steps is something which is void of all content. It gives us no intelligible program for a way of life, no goal or ideal to strive after…Jesus is the only significance. Beside Jesus nothing has any significance. He alone matters. –Bonhoeffer I […]
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Hearts and Labels. The gospel of bums made victorious
It used to be that the worst thing you could say about somebody was that they had “no heart.” Today it seems that the best way to offend a dude is to “label” him. I get it. We resist being defined by the outside world. Really at the end of the day, you can think […]
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If You Love Somebody, Set them Free: slavery, freedom and the love of Christ
If you love somebody, if you love someone, set them free. -Sting If the Son has set you free you are free indeed. -Jesus It was in January 1863 that Abraham Lincoln issued the “Emancipation Proclamation,” officially setting a people free. The great Booker T. Washington, who was nine years old when his family heard […]
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Believing Our Own Press: Bonhoeffer, Duritz and PR departments
One of my favorite all-time songs, for those keeping score at home, is “Mr. Jones” by Counting Crows. You remember this song, I am sure. Adam Duritz, the writer and singer confesses: When everybody loves me; I’m just about as happy as I can be. Who among us would argue? The truth is that all […]
Casey Hobbs 