For you will certainly carry out God’s purpose, however you act, but it makes a difference to you whether you serve like Judas or like John. — C.S. Lewis, The Problem of Pain
Tag Archive: choice
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Apr 01 2012
My Name is Barabbas
The name Barabbas means “son of the father” (bar-abba). Before Pilate and the crowd, there were two sons of the father, one innocent, one guilty. They chose one to free, one to condemn. Which son of the father was Adam, and the rest of us, suppose to be like? Two sons of the father, that …
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Feb 25 2012
Why Give Up Something for Lent
A recent status update of mine on FaceBook: Gave up Dr. Pepper for Lent. Minimum amount of Mt Dew is staving off the caffeine withdrawal headaches, but it’s not the same as good ole DP. Giving up Facebook would have been easier. Offer it up. If you can’t read between the lines, I’m addicted to …
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May 18 2010
What We Choose to Fight
What we choose to fight is so tiny… When we win it’s with small things, and the triumph itself makes us small. — Rainer Maria Rilke, from the poem “The Watching Man”
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Dec 05 2009
Image and Likeness
Is “image and likeness” a redundant phrase, or does it mark a distinction? Arguably the latter. To be created in God’s image is to be granted the potentiality for sharing in the divine life, a potentiality that may or may not be actualized and is shared in equally by all human beings without their consent. …
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