Tag Archives: born again

Rethinking This Thing About Being Your Authentic Self

There is a lot of buzz today about being our “authentic selves”. It is often used as rationalization for sinful behaviors, and can be heard in the memes of popular culture: ”I gotta be me”, “this is just who I … Continue reading

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Slugs and anchors — Hebrew 4-6

 Today’s reading continues to encourage Jewish Christians to remain true to the covenant established by Jesus by drawing analogy been their present circumstances and the circumstances of most of their forebears in the wilderness — because they wanted to turn … Continue reading

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Whatever He says to you, do it — John 2-4

There have been a lot of new items recently on the movement afoot by those who style themselves “Freedom From Religion”, who want to ban greetings of Merry Christmas, manger scenes, and etc. from public view. In response there seems … Continue reading

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