inside and outside

The reason that outside isn’t so bad is that inside isn’t so good. When Jesus said that people who didn’t respond to three distinct, thoughtful, caring challenges to their behavior needed to leave the church, He was intending was that the threat of having to leave the warmth of community in the church would be […]

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Do something.

(Matthew 3: 1-4) The first word that John (the baptizer) says, as recorded by Matthew anyway, is ‘repent.’ I’m guessing that it wasn’t the first word he ever spoke, mind you. John was fully human. He would have done and said everything that a child says and does. But John grew up knowing that he […]

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