I’m on vacation from work, reading, and this website. See you after Labor Day.
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wadehodges.com Archives: August 2003
According to the parables of Jesus, is everybody included except those who exclude themselves with unbelief? Or is everyone excluded until they are included on the basis of belief (faith)?
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I’m back from a time of study and reflection at a nearby lakeside cabin owned by some folks from my church. I try to go and do this kind of thing every 3 or 4 months. I usually go just before I begin a new series to map out the number of messages [...]
I’ll be away from the computer for the next few days as I immerse myself in the parables.
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“Christ has no body but yours,no hands but yours,not feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through whichChrist’s compassion must look out on the world.Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good.Yours are the hands with whichHe is to bless us now.”
St. Teresa of Avila
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Yesterday I finished with my series on Genesis and now I’m getting ready to preach on the parables of Jesus this fall. I still haven’t decided which parables I’ll be talking about in the series.
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In a trendy coffeehouse, a jolt of religion
On weekdays, Laurel Pennock goes to Q Cafe, her favorite non-profit coffeehouse, where the sofas are comfy, the music is likely to be indie rock and the java is shade-grown, fair-trade and, of course, organic.
Sunday, the 24-year-old file clerk goes to the same place, but this time [...]
Last Sunday night, Heather and I saw “Seabiscuit.” I had read the book earlier this summer and was really looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed. Seabiscuit was a down and out horse who brought together a broken-hearted millionaire, a displaced horseman, and a vagabond jockey into a family of sorts. [...]
Minus Reaction to Gibson’s Jesus Movie Expected
By Grant Swank
When approaching the Holy Scriptures, I was introduced to demythologizing. That was the clever technique spun particularly in European theological backrooms and transported to the Western Sphere of how one can read a biblical passage and then scissor out the whatevers. Whatever was too outlandish could [...]
In Waking the Dead, John Eldredge continues to build on the ideas hes introduced in his previous books. In this one, Eldredge hammers the concept of living with our hearts fully alive to God. His basic premise: 1. Our hearts are good (because of the what Christ has done in the New Covenant)2. Our [...]
According to the parables of Jesus, is everybody included except those who exclude themselves with unbelief? Or is everyone excluded until they are included on the basis of belief (faith)?
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I’m back from a time of study and reflection at a nearby lakeside cabin owned by some folks from my church. I try to go and do this kind of thing every 3 or 4 months. I usually go just before I begin a new series to map out the number of messages [...]
I’ll be away from the computer for the next few days as I immerse myself in the parables.
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“Christ has no body but yours,no hands but yours,not feet but yours.Yours are the eyes through whichChrist’s compassion must look out on the world.Yours are the feet with which He is to go about doing good.Yours are the hands with whichHe is to bless us now.”
St. Teresa of Avila
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Yesterday I finished with my series on Genesis and now I’m getting ready to preach on the parables of Jesus this fall. I still haven’t decided which parables I’ll be talking about in the series.
0
In a trendy coffeehouse, a jolt of religion
On weekdays, Laurel Pennock goes to Q Cafe, her favorite non-profit coffeehouse, where the sofas are comfy, the music is likely to be indie rock and the java is shade-grown, fair-trade and, of course, organic.
Sunday, the 24-year-old file clerk goes to the same place, but this time [...]
Last Sunday night, Heather and I saw “Seabiscuit.” I had read the book earlier this summer and was really looking forward to the movie. I wasn’t disappointed. Seabiscuit was a down and out horse who brought together a broken-hearted millionaire, a displaced horseman, and a vagabond jockey into a family of sorts. [...]
Minus Reaction to Gibson’s Jesus Movie Expected
By Grant Swank
When approaching the Holy Scriptures, I was introduced to demythologizing. That was the clever technique spun particularly in European theological backrooms and transported to the Western Sphere of how one can read a biblical passage and then scissor out the whatevers. Whatever was too outlandish could [...]
In Waking the Dead, John Eldredge continues to build on the ideas hes introduced in his previous books. In this one, Eldredge hammers the concept of living with our hearts fully alive to God. His basic premise: 1. Our hearts are good (because of the what Christ has done in the New Covenant)2. Our [...]
