Jason

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The perfect church

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Right. So you finally find the perfect church. The pastor, the preaching, the music, the fellowship... everything. It's perfect. And it's a good thing because after all these years, you were beginning to think it didn't exist. But it does of course. You have proof. You've just found it. Thus you dwell in heavenly oblivion as you relish the Utopian splendour of a truly perfect church. The jolt Then one day it happens. Like a

School choices

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If you recently finished uni or school, you may not be keen to relive those years! Let's get on with life, right? But it's worth looking back sometimes, because your school experience has shaped you as a person. Children spend most of their time involved with school (more than church and even family) during their most formative years. A school's influence is therefore considerable. Looking back, did you ever wonder what kind of person you

On the atonement

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Leviticus 12, 13 "I was shapen in iniquity, and in sin did my mother conceive me" ( Pss. 51:5 KJV). From the beginning of my life my contact has been with the unclean—how than can a man become pure? The atonement blood that cleanses my mother must avail also for me. O Lamb of God, what a sacrifice Thou art! Whose blood could avail like Thine? Goat's blood could not cleanse for animals are nonmoral.

On Bono and other lame fads

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I debated whether to post this today. In the end, it's not about singling out one guy. But sometimes dealing with a real situation can make a truth appropriately pointed. So here goes... The pre-story I recently read a post by an Australian pastor boasting that he was going to preach on Bono on Sunday. I commented urging him to preach the word instead. I was soundly rebuked and brushed off as immature. I was

There are no bad men out here. Bad men don't last. –Osmar White (Green Armour)
When you let trivial things matter—when you care about petty stuff more than important issues and relationships—you've been trapped by small thinking. –Dexter Yager
It's true that you only live once. But if you work it right, once is enough. –Joe E. Lewis
I seemed not to mourn that I had committed such crimes, and for the fact as it was an offence against God and my neighbour, but that I was to be punished for it. I was a penitent, as I thought, not that I had sinned, but that I was to suffer. –Moll Flanders (Daniel Defoe)
If you could remember what I remember, you would understand. Israel is the only nation in the world whose existence is threatened. Should Israel lose but one war, it would mean her end and ours as well. –Elie Wiesel (Nobel Peace Prize acceptance speech, 1986)