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On Judging
If the mind that needs to make moral judgements about everything is the master instead of the servant, religion is almost always corrupted. Some would think that is the whole meaning of Christianity:...
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Humility
Why are our churches so full of pride? Why do we find so many people within the body of Christ whose goal is to be ‘right’ or ‘the best’ or in power? Why are there so many who would exclude and look...
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Liminal Spaces: Church as Renewal
…[I once saw] these shocking words in chalk on the sidewalk… ‘I watch how foolishly man guards his nothing, thereby keeping Me out. Truly God is hated here.’ …I knew there was some truth in what that...
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Reblog: Autism Parents and the Church: Sabbath
Originally posted on The Left Hand of Ehud: Matt's Bible Blog: Sometimes, things get too much. You’ve run out of tolerance for being yelled at or hit. Or you’re fed up of arguing with doctors, with...
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Reblog: This Must Not Stand
Originally posted on The Left Hand of Ehud: Matt's Bible Blog: Look, this isn’t about Politics-with-a-capital-P: there was a referendum, small majority voted to leave the EU, we have to manage what...
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Necessary Surrender
We each have our inner program for happiness, our plans by which we can be secure, esteemed and in control, and are blissfully unaware that these cannot work for us for the long haul – without our...
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Reblog: Being “Unoffendable?” — All Things are Yours
In various circles that I participate in, multitudes of books and sermons have been coming out lately about the need to be “unoffendable.” The idea being, that anytime someone feels snubbed, hurt,...
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Reblog: The Paralympics, Disability and the Church
Originally posted on The Left Hand of Ehud: Matt's Bible Blog: The Paralympics start today! I have two children with disabilities, becoming their dad in 2012. That was around the time of the London...
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Reblog: ‘The Bible is a Refugee Narrative: The Church and Migration’
Originally posted on The Left Hand of Ehud: Matt's Bible Blog: The Bible is the sweeping story of a refugee people. It’s sometimes hard to see it as such, when bishops sit in the House of Lords and...
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When to Judge
…what business is it of mine to judge outsiders (non-believers)?… God alone sits in judgement on those who are outside [the faith]. REMOVE THE WICKED ONE FROM AMONG YOU [expel him from your church]. 1...
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