Showing posts with label Idle Musings. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Idle Musings. Show all posts
Tuesday, June 30, 2026

Did Paul blow it?

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For instance, Paul gave the Christian position regarding the structure of a Christian society thus: “In it there is no room for Greek and Je...
Wednesday, June 24, 2026

A sense of mission? Not so much…

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Many Christians know little or nothing about personal guidance from God. They go from event to event and live a kind of hand-to-mouth spirit...
Monday, March 02, 2026

The greatest danger

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I'm reading Abraham Joshua Heschel's great work, The Prophets . Came across this yesterday and it seems appropriate for our time, wh...
Thursday, December 11, 2025

Technological Progress…

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Let us labor under no illusions. There are no easy solutions for problems that are at the same time intensely personal and universal, urgent...
Monday, November 03, 2025

The Nazi myth recycled … as a MAGA myth!

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I read Karen Armstrong's A Short History of Myth over the weekend. On the whole it's just a rehash of Eliade and Joseph Campbell, b...
Tuesday, October 21, 2025

The road goes ever on… but this blog won't

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I've been blogging now for twenty years (today is the twentieth anniversary). Some years I've blogged more than others, but I've...
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Monday, October 20, 2025

The social net and the gospel

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I say we cannot preach it [the gospel] honestly, not because people might look at lack of community in our own lives and say, “You aren’t pr...
Thursday, October 16, 2025

The real tragedy is…

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Psychologist John Powell submits that there are only two potential tragedies in life, and dying young is not one of them. These are the tw...
Tuesday, October 07, 2025

Mummify that beauty!

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Like the ancient Egyptians, we attempt to mummify our youth and sexual attractiveness through contemporary forms of “embalming”: cosmetics, ...
Wednesday, September 10, 2025

The final post from Crucifixion

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The greater part of the discussion in these pages has focused upon the communal, corporate, and cosmic significance of the cross of Jesus Chr...
Wednesday, August 20, 2025

A prayer? Or a patriotic song?

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695 My Country 'Tis of Thee 1 My country, 'tis of thee,    Sweet land of liberty,    Of thee I sing;    Land where my fathers died,...
Tuesday, August 19, 2025

Pay taxes?

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691 The Social Obligations of a Christian The Bible teaches that the Christian should be law-abiding. The Bible also teaches loyalty to cou...
Monday, August 18, 2025

A (belated) prayer for an election

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689 Before an Election Lord Jesus, we ask Thee to guide the people of this nation as they exercise their dearly bought privilege of franch...
Monday, August 11, 2025

Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life

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665 Where Cross the Crowded Ways of Life 1 Where cross the crowded ways of life,    Where sound the cries of race and clan,    Above the no...
Saturday, August 09, 2025

He Lifted Me

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653 He Lifted Me 1 In loving kindness Jesus came,    my soul in mercy to reclaim,    and from the depths of sin and shame,    through grace...
Thursday, August 07, 2025

I'd Rather Have Jesus

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650 I'd Rather Have Jesus 1 I'd rather have Jesus than silver or gold;    I'd rather be His than have riches untold;    I'd...
Tuesday, August 05, 2025

Since Jesus Came into My Heart

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639 Since Jesus Came into My Heart 1 What a wonderful change in my life has been wrought    Since Jesus came into my heart!    I have light...
Monday, August 04, 2025

Now I Belong to Jesus

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637 Now I Belong to Jesus 1 Jesus my Lord will love me forever,    From him no pow'r of evil can sever;    He gave his life to ransom m...
Sunday, August 03, 2025

The Light of the World Is Jesus

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636 The Light of the World Is Jesus 1 The whole world was lost in the darkness of sin;    The Light of the world is Jesus.    Like sunshine...
Friday, August 01, 2025

O, How I Love Jesus

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634 O, How I Love Jesus 1 There is a name I love to hear,    I love to sing its worth;    It sounds like music in my ear,    The sweetest n...