Shout it Out Loud

“You are the salt of the earth, but if salt has lost its taste, how shall its saltiness be restored? It is no longer good for anything except to be thrown out and trampled under people’s feet. “You are the light of the world. A city set on a hill cannot be hidden. Nor do [...]

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See-Through Walls

There is one huge problem with the stained glass masquerade. The world can see right through it. The world sees people who say they’re Chrsitians but who act just like them. Except on Sundays and Wendesday nights when they dress up for their masquerade and go sit in church and pretend to be better than [...]

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Stained Glass Masquerade

Today’s post follows up on the last one. One of the biggest problems with tthe church today is that we don’t just go through the motions, we put on a stained glass masquerade. We go to church and put on a show for eveyone else so that they will see us as “good Christians.” Then [...]

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I Don’t Wanna Go Through the Motions

There’s a song written by Matthew West that I really love. It’s called the Motions. The chorus goes like this: I don’t wanna go through the motions I don’t wanna go one more day without Your all consuming passion inside of me I don’t wanna spend my whole life asking, “What if I had given [...]

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Super Why

Have you ever seen this TV show on PBS called Super Why? It is probably the worst kids show ever. See they tell all these fairy tales, Cinderella, The Emperor’s New Clothes, Humpty Dumpty, Little Red Riding Hood, Hansel and Gretel. That’s not a problem. The problem is that they water down the stories and [...]

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The Word Made Flesh

In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God.  He was in the beginning with God.  All things were made through him, and without him was not any thing made that was made.  In him was life,  and the life was the light of men.  The light [...]

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