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Sing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet

Today, in church, we sang ‘Take My Life‘, a wonderful little hymn. Given the biblical illiteracy of our day, I wondered whether one particular line might cause trouble: Take my feet, and let them be swift and beautiful for thee. Praying for fast and pretty feet seems, well, shallow, if the biblical allusion is not [...]
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2 thessalonians 3 and the emerging christian movement

And by “emerging Christian movement,” I speak not of the “Emerging/Emergent Church” movement of today but rather the original Christian movement while it was first emerging, during the period of Paul’s letters. Related Posts:didache tuesdaySing with the understanding also: swift and beautiful feet assumptions as they currently standabout the biblethe single foundational truth of christianity
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communism, the free market, and the early church

In a conversation between myself and the legendary Joel Watts, we were discussing socialism versus free market economics.  And brother Joel said the following: And what exactly are ’socialist motives’? You mean live feeding the hungry, healing the sick, and having all things common in a community so that everyone is equal? Now, Joel did [...]
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about the bible

In the last post, I stated how Jesus Christ’s actual death and resurrection are the basic assumption that I will hold to throughout my writing.  Hand in hand with the truth of the story of Jesus, I believe in the inspiration of the Bible.  That is, I believe that, somehow, the words written in the [...]
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