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Archives / February 2008
The Other Side of Fiction
February 29, 2008
The following was on the marquee at a local theater: Heath Ledger in I’m not there As I looked at this every day on my way to and from work, the sadness of that title was profound. And though, not trying to draw too many conclusions or metaphors from the title, I could not help but think how in many ways, that when we are at home with our spouses and our children, often we are there in body, but not really there in mind. I hear parents ask the same question: “when my son/daughter...
February 29, 2008
The following was on the marquee at a local theater: Heath Ledger in I’m not there As I looked at this every day on my way to and from work, the sadness of that title was profound. And though, not trying to draw too many conclusions or metaphors from the title, I could not help but think how in many ways, that when we are at home with our spouses and our children, often we are there in body, but not really there in mind. I hear parents ask the same question: “when my son/daughter...
The Only Complete Realist
February 28, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:13 Anderson's Applications: Mountains attract me. They are majestic, glorious, mysterious, yet beckoning; like other parts of God's creation, they speak of His nature, majesty and power. The Psalmist said, "I lift up my eyes to the hills--where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth." (Psalm 121:1-2) But for anyone who has hiked in the mountains or climbed peaks, mountains...
February 28, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil." Matthew 6:13 Anderson's Applications: Mountains attract me. They are majestic, glorious, mysterious, yet beckoning; like other parts of God's creation, they speak of His nature, majesty and power. The Psalmist said, "I lift up my eyes to the hills--where does my help come from? My help comes from the Lord, the maker of heaven and earth." (Psalm 121:1-2) But for anyone who has hiked in the mountains or climbed peaks, mountains...
Rogue Waves
February 20, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "The Lord passed before him (Moses) and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty." Exodus 34:6 Anderson's Applications: Tragically, my cousin, 62 like me, drowned this past week in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja in Mexico. He was by all accounts a great swimmer...
February 20, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "The Lord passed before him (Moses) and proclaimed, "The Lord, the Lord, a God merciful and gracious, slow to anger, and abounding in steadfast love and faithfulness, keeping steadfast love for thousands, forgiving iniquity and transgression and sin, but who will by no means clear the guilty." Exodus 34:6 Anderson's Applications: Tragically, my cousin, 62 like me, drowned this past week in the Pacific Ocean off the coast of Baja in Mexico. He was by all accounts a great swimmer...
O To Grace How Great A Debtor
February 14, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." (#2) Matthew 6:12 Anderson's Applications: Recently I heard a television preacher say on the air waves that the Christian hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was errant in its theology. He said that the hymn writer's words, "O to grace how great a debtor, daily I'm constrained to be" were simply not true. "God freely forgives us," he said, "through the atoning death of Jesus Christ for our sins on the cross." He concluded,...
February 14, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." (#2) Matthew 6:12 Anderson's Applications: Recently I heard a television preacher say on the air waves that the Christian hymn "Come Thou Fount of Every Blessing" was errant in its theology. He said that the hymn writer's words, "O to grace how great a debtor, daily I'm constrained to be" were simply not true. "God freely forgives us," he said, "through the atoning death of Jesus Christ for our sins on the cross." He concluded,...
We Prove Daily That Forgiveness Is Not Natural
February 6, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matthew 6:12 Anderson's Applications: I was nine or ten years old and it was 10 minutes to midnight on New Years Eve. At midnight sharp the fireworks would go off on the top of Pikes Peak. Unfortunately, I was sitting in a position that did not give me a view of the top of the peak, despite the large window in the front of the church; depending on where you were sitting you would have a very good view of the top. But I was not sitting...
February 6, 2008
Scriptural Basis: "Forgive us our debts, as we forgive our debtors." Matthew 6:12 Anderson's Applications: I was nine or ten years old and it was 10 minutes to midnight on New Years Eve. At midnight sharp the fireworks would go off on the top of Pikes Peak. Unfortunately, I was sitting in a position that did not give me a view of the top of the peak, despite the large window in the front of the church; depending on where you were sitting you would have a very good view of the top. But I was not sitting...
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