First, watch this: C.S. Lewis once observed that, in a world where we’re likely to be so self-focused that we ignore God completely, pain has the ability to soften our hearts and open our eyes to the reality we often ignore. For many, no doubt, this reality hit closer to home than they [...]
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Francis Chan is not a very good writer. His vocabulary is simple and concise, his sentence structure bland and ordinary. In many ways, his writing is reminiscent of your standard preacher who appeals to cliches such as the fact that you could die at any second and that today should be lived as though it [...]
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My friend Jeff Goins just posted a blog entry asking the reader to consider if they might not be full of crap. To be full of crap is to say one thing, but to be another. It is hypocrisy, but not just in sinning. Hypocrisy is present at any time our actions do not line [...]
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