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Category Archives: The Joshua Challenge
The Monsters are Due on Maple Street
One afternoon on Maple Street, in a fictitious neighborhood near you, a peculiar event, marked by a shadowy figure, a roar, and a flash of light, disrupted the peaceful neighborhood. Although initially dismissed as a passing meteor, the sudden power … Continue reading
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Tagged culture wars, Evangelicals, Haitian migrants, Springfield Ohio, Trump, Vance
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Am I Stubbornly Prejudiced or a Deluded Cultist?
An old friend of mine recently said I was “either stubbornly prejudiced or a deluded member of a cult.” My sin? For saying that the “spirit of Trump wars against the Spirit of Christ, and I would have to deny … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024, culture wars, Evangelicals, Trump
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Reclaiming the Church’s Kingdom Mission: 95 Theses for the Present-Day Church
What if a single revolutionary idea could completely transform how we see the world? That’s the power of a paradigm shift, a concept first coined in 1962 by Thomas Kuhn, an influential philosopher of science. According to Kuhn, scientific progress … Continue reading
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Tagged 95 theses, Christlikeness, culture wars, following Jesus, martin luther
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Tell Me Where I’m Wrong
As I go hiking and fly fishing throughout the Northwest, I pass through rural areas where Trump flags are common. I’ve tried to put myself in their shoes but I’m sure I come up short. Miles’s law states, “Where you … Continue reading
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Tagged 2024 election, Integrity, Trump
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The Kingdom, the Power, and the Glory
We tried out a new section this year in our annual Christmas letter by providing a brief description of the notable books for the year. Although we are just one month into the new year, I’ve already read one of … Continue reading
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The Remarkable Words of Jonathan Edwards
“It is not merely a commendable thing for a man to be kind and bountiful to the poor, but our bounden duty, as much a duty as it is to pray, or to attend public worship, or anything else whatever. … Continue reading
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Tagged Benevolence, Christian charity, immigration, Jonathan Edwards
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The B-I-B-L-E: Can That Be the Book For “We”?
As a young boy, my friend Tommy and I would hold a weekly competition for church voice supremacy. Now this wasn’t a formal contest, sanctioned by some adult or official in the church. This was of our own doing, a … Continue reading
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Tagged bible, biblical authority, biblical literalist, fruit of the spirit
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Six Graphs and Six New Year Reflections
Graph 1 – The two main political parties in America exhibit near equal distain for each other. Extreme partisanship amplifies this polarization even further. It’s worth spending time considering these data. Only 8% of Republicans believe Democrats are honest and … Continue reading
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Tagged culture wars, disunity, fruit of the spirit, New Year Resolutions, polarization
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On George Washington’s “First Essential in a Man”
After 57 years of living in Juneau with its limited road system, Tammy and I still enjoy driving, putting over 35K total miles a year on our two vehicles, a pace we maintained even during covid. Most of those miles … Continue reading
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Tagged Abortion, Al Mohler, Character, Child Allowance, Pro Life
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“Truly He Taught Us to Love One Another”
The British geneticist and evolutionary biologist Haldane once famously said: “I would gladly lay down my life for two brothers or eight cousins.” Haldane’s quip follows from a selfish gene’s cost/benefit analysis, calculated from the odds of gene sustainability given … Continue reading
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Tagged Evangelicals, Good Samaritan, Immigrants, Love thy neighbor, Selfish gene
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