Monthly Archives: September 2023

Hide and Seek ~ Not Such an Innocent Game

Opportunities to play any of those communal outdoor games that groups of kids played back in the days before cell phones didn’t come my way very often in my 

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Another Call for More “Sons of Issachar”

If the group of guys I had been watching nearby had tried to see who could come up with the most extravagant understatement, my money would have been on the bearded guy in the baseball cap. You could tell he … Continue reading

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Dogs, Pigs, and Holy Things ~ Part 2

In Part 1 of last week’s post,  my attention had been taken captive by a command that Jesus had included in that unparalleled dissertation that we call the Sermon on the Mount. In a single sentence, Israel’s Master Teacher delivered … Continue reading

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Dogs, Pigs, and Holy Things ~ Part 1

Have you ever read something that Jesus said and found yourself saying something like, “Wait… What? What’s He really saying here?” You may have

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Just … STOP

I was in the midst of writing a post for this week on an entirely different subject, when it suddenly hit me. “Oh no!” I thought. “Is it really 

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