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N. T. Wright on Death and Tyrants

Posted on September 10, 2013 Written by Mark McIntyre 2 Comments

Death is the last weapon of the tyrant, and the point of the resurrection, despite much misunderstanding, is that death has been defeated.

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School Prayer

Thoughts on Prayer inspired by C. S. Lewis

The desperate posts in the great battle often are given to those whose faith is strong enough to weather seemingly unanswered prayer. So says C. S. Lewis in the essay on which this post is based.

Communication

Miscommunication Hurts

This story illustrates that miscommunication carries a cost. Four Euros will be little missed in the grand scheme of things. But what about the cost associated with miscommunication, through words or actions, of the Gospel of Jesus?

Liberty

Shaw on Civil and Religious Liberty

The civil government appears to be impelled by something like infatuation, and is introducing, or giving countenance to, measures that are darkly ominous to both civil and religious liberty, as if hastening onward to a crisis which all may shudder to contemplate.

Power

The same power

These words have bothered me. I agree that they are true, I agree that Jesus has demonstrated that power to us. But singing them brought up some questions in my mind.

On a lost golden age

Rather than be nostalgic for something that never was, we can participate with God in responding correctly to the time in which we find ourselves.

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