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Either Most Of Us Are Universalists Or The Survey Was Poorly Worded

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Posted on June 23, 2008 - 2:08pm at Just Another Pretty Farce
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This New York Times story announces happily that 70% of “religious” Americans believe that many faiths can lead to eternal life. Breaking it down further, they said that 57% of Evangelical Christians believe that.

Easter proclaims a beginning

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Posted on March 21, 2008 - 9:07pm at WonderDawg
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Thankful Thursday, Take 69

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Posted on March 13, 2008 - 3:47pm at Lavender *Sparkles*
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Thanking God this week for...

The Cross as Symbol

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Posted on March 10, 2008 - 4:46pm at iHajj: Thomas McKenzie
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The Cross is the most recognizable symbol on this planet.

You. And You KNOW Who You Are…

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Posted on March 10, 2008 - 2:45pm at Just Another Pretty Farce
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Anti-Muslim stuff is so 2002.  (Not that I liked it then, either.)

But you read blogs back then…back when it was Lileks and Instapundit and Powerline and those fellows.  So you started your own blog.  Then you got hits to your blog, and maybe even a comment or link from one of the big guys.

So you decided to preserve the increase in hit count by writing what you thought your audience wanted to hear.   You decided to go with snide jokes about women’s appea

Word to the wise…

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Posted on March 10, 2008 - 2:14pm at Music City Bloggers
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It wouldn’t bother me if you didn’t claim the cross of Christ even as you do these things. But you do.

Please, I’m begging you. This is your opportunity to be better. To do better. To love even the Muslims–who are indeed loved by Christ. Please stop squandering the power of the Cross on your earthy glory.

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Divine Compassion

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Posted on February 20, 2008 - 3:32pm at iHajj: Thomas McKenzie
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With thanks to Tony Jones for the quotes

Holy Love

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Posted on February 20, 2008 - 11:58am at Lavender *Sparkles*
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A lot of times, particularly when faced with some of the more offensive stumbling-block truths of Christianity, you'll hear people say, "God is love. Period." But I think it's foolishly simplistic to imagine we can reduce the Creator and Sustainer of the Universe to one word, as though His infinite majesty can be effectively summed up in four letters.

As for the false dichotomy between His holiness and His love, I read this quote recently and found it provocative:

By Us and For Us

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Posted on February 13, 2008 - 9:24am at Lavender *Sparkles*
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"Before we can begin to see the cross as something done for us (leading us to faith and worship), we have to see it as something done by us (leading us to repentance). Indeed, 'only the man who is prepared to own his share in the guilt of the cross,' wrote Canon Peter Green, 'may claim his share in its grace.'"

--John Stott, The Cross of Christ

Ash Wednesday

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Posted on February 6, 2008 - 3:37pm at Lavender *Sparkles*
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As Lent begins, I don't want to just take something away. I want to add. It's a pet peeve of mine that Christianity is often defined by a list of "don'ts." We view our faith in the negative, rather than highlighting the positive. So besides not doing certain things for Lent, I want to do certain other things--intentional practices that will help me grow in my understanding of the cross and my intimacy with God.

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