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Sexy Jesus

I know. But I realized that lots of people, including me from time to time, do everything we can to make Jesus sexy. We dress him up pretty to take him out with us. When I look at Luke 15, I start to think that must have been what was happening, why he was so […]

by Jon Swanson

A lot of wine.

Our pastor was talking about Jesus’ first miracle. It’s the one where water becomes wine. Jesus had the servants in the place where the wedding was fill six stone jars with water. Each of the stone jars held between twenty and thirty gallons. Pastor Bill had four 5-gallon buckets on the platform. That’s six of the stacks […]

by Jon Swanson

Hypocrites, part 1

My friend talked about a lot of things. He talked a lot about hypocrites. I was a perfect audience. He gets very passionate about hypocrites in church. They say they will do things and they don’t. They are supposed to be caring and they aren’t. They tell other people to live a certain way and […]

by Jon Swanson

The end of January.

Are you ready for 2012? I am. I mean, I had great ideas for 2011. I started the year with 99 goals for the year. Some of them were just a “to-do” list. Some of them were in the “remember to be nice” kind of category. A couple of them were huge. Now January is […]

by Jon Swanson

Being saved, part two.

Yesterday, the jailer was looking for answers. Though it’s been twenty-four hours (or more) for us since we started looking at this story, for him it happened in minutes. (Please read Being Saved for the first part of the story.) When the jailer was asking Paul and Silas what he needed to do in order […]