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If Beth had a blog: Hobby Lobby: The Good News Just Keeps on Coming
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If Beth had a blog. Wednesday, July 2, 2014. Hobby Lobby: The Good News Just Keeps on Coming. About my reaction (angry) to the Hobby Lobby decision of the Supreme Court (they aren’t cool enough to warrant the SCOTUS appellation - this is no rock group, folks). In on-going FB and elsewhere conversations, I have reason to be even more hopeful today than yesterday. Did I Just Hear Justice Alito Say Single-Payer is Constitutional? Privately-held corporations can get out of certain ACA requirements because.
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If Beth had a blog: 9 Misconceptions Non-Believers Seem to Have About Christians
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If Beth had a blog. Thursday, January 23, 2014. 9 Misconceptions Non-Believers Seem to Have About Christians. Only stupid people believe in God. Yes, there are people of not much intelligence who believe in God. And there are people of stellar intellectual brilliance who do not. But there are bright people who do believe in God and not-so-bright people who don’t. It’s not about intelligence, so get down off your high horse. Need some examples? It doesn’t make any sense. There is nothing good about it.
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If Beth had a blog: Advent Day14 - When Angels Sang
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If Beth had a blog. Saturday, December 13, 2014. Advent Day14 - When Angels Sang. We, the heavenly host, God’s own army, if you will, have been practicing for centuries, millennia even, for this moment. We’ll have to dial it back, of course, for human ears could not withstand the sheer volume when we are in full voice. Heaven itself shakes then. So do our voices raise (who could help it when singing of such Truth? So do we sing that which cannot be named or contained . . . December 13, 2014 at 10:40 AM.
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If Beth had a blog: An Unsolicited Job Reference for Arlene: What You Should Be Wanting in a Pastor
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If Beth had a blog. Wednesday, October 30, 2013. An Unsolicited Job Reference for Arlene: What You Should Be Wanting in a Pastor. Seminary buddy Arlene shares on FB her journey in seeking a call with 7 years of experience as a solo pastor under her belt. Arlene reports some of the reasons she’s been given for not being called: shoes, hair, laugh (not sure if was that I did or that it was too loud), age, my voice . . . Here’s what I know about all this insanity:. Strangers would, within a few minutes of s...
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If Beth had a blog: 12 Reasons Not to Come to My Church
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If Beth had a blog. Monday, October 14, 2013. 12 Reasons Not to Come to My Church. Churches these days, in the United States at least, seem to desperately seek out new members. That makes sense spiritually as well as practically, for Christians are called to evangelize, that is, to spread the word of God’s love to the world. But every church is not for every person. So if you’re thinking about or looking for a church community to call your own, be warned: this may not be the church for you. To be invisib...
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If Beth had a blog: Advent Day 11: Only the Sick
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If Beth had a blog. Wednesday, December 10, 2014. Advent Day 11: Only the Sick. Only we, the sick, seek out the physicians among your number. You healthy ones avoid the healers as if curing the plague is itself a plague. Do they remind you, as surely as we do, of your own frailty? Your own precarious hold on health? Do you fear them, the healers among you, as you so obviously fear us? 8211; William Sloane Coffin. Subscribe to: Post Comments (Atom). 12 Reasons Not to Come to My Church. Dear Mr. Huckab...
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If Beth had a blog: And So It Goes: Violence, Vengeance, Anger, and Aiming at the Wrong Target
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If Beth had a blog. Saturday, September 15, 2012. And So It Goes: Violence, Vengeance, Anger, and Aiming at the Wrong Target. Mosque in Harrisonburg after Friday's vandalsim. The local mosque in Harrisonburg, Virginia, was defaced on Friday, as Muslims in many other parts of the world demonstrated against the film whose name I do not know, dishonoring the Prophet Mohammed, with outbreaks of violence reported. And we all know what happened earlier in the week in Cairo and Benghazi. The outbreak of violenc...
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If Beth had a blog: Dear Mr. Huckabee
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If Beth had a blog. Saturday, December 15, 2012. Dear Mr. Huckabee. Dear Mr. Huckabee,. As a fellow pastor, here are my problems with your analysis of the question posed to you by Nick Cavuto:. How could God let this happen? Question were left with nothing. You’re a pastor. And you were speaking as a representative (evangelist/ambassador) for Christ yesterday, not as (or not merely as) a television commentator. You were asked the question because of. You’re factually wrong in the claimed link betwe...
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If Beth had a blog: Was It Worth It? A Mary Meditation (Part 1)
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If Beth had a blog. Sunday, December 21, 2014. Was It Worth It? A Mary Meditation (Part 1). A woman gives birth after hours that seem like days passing into night. A friend who had been by her side throughout the ordeal looks upon her and asks was it worth it? The woman understands the question, yet is surprised by it, by her friend’s ignorance. How can her friend not know? How can she not see? She answers smiling through the pain. Yes. It was worth it. The friend’s question was driven not by mere ...
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If Beth had a blog: In Defense of the CIA
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If Beth had a blog. Thursday, December 11, 2014. In Defense of the CIA. To attack the Central Intelligence Agency (CIA) for torture as part of our nationally self-described ‘War on Terror’ is nonsensical, for one simple reason: as a nation, each and all of us joined the conspiracy of silence (tacit approval) and spoken approval. News outlet employees performed ridiculous ‘re-enactments’ of waterboarding to make a joke of it and claim it wasn’t torture to experience forced drowning. Guantanamo Bay (still ...
