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Weekend Update: Hobbits, Russians, and Obama
By Steve on January 14, 2013
It’s the weekend which means I’m allowed to go a little off topic on events which I find a bit interesting: Gerard Depardieu becomes Russian Everyone’s favorite Frenchman isn’t French anymore! Yes, this week Gerard…
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What Does It Mean To Be “Saved”? Part 1
By Steve on January 12, 2013
What does it mean to be “saved”? A few days ago a friend of mine was noting some of the qualities of a mutual acquaintance of ours. It went something like this; “Yeah, she’s bright,…
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When The Church Starts to Look Like “Harry Potter”
By Steve on January 9, 2013
What does God really care about? That is something that I have been thinking about for the past few weeks. This morning a Facebook friend sent around this quote from Christian scholar Scot McKnight; “Atonement…
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Ending Slavery: Bringing Heaven to Earth
By Steve on January 6, 2013
I wanted to share a great video I saw on CNN yesterday. Christians, particularly young people, raising awareness and making a stand against the the blight of slavery which still runs rampant across the globe….
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N.T. Wright & How God Became King
By Steve on January 5, 2013
Followers of Beyond the Pale know that the theme of the Kingdom of God has been resonating in my heart this last year. In fact its probably the driving force behind my re-launching the blog…
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“Does God Really Not Like Me?”
By Steve on January 3, 2013
Just before the Christmas holiday I wrote a piece on Christ as “God with us”. I’ve been mulling that idea over in my mind through endless renditions of Silent Night and Hark the Herald Angels…