February 2012
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“Don’t become so well-adjusted to your culture that you fit into it without...”
– Paul (via Eugene Peterson’s The Message paraphrase)
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“Whatever else might happen in the Tebow story, he won’t fail as an NFL...”
– Mark Kriedler, ESPN.com
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“Give us this day our daily bread”
– Jesus (cf. Exodus 16)
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“He who does not long to know more of Christ knows nothing of him yet.”
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Charles H. Spurgeon said this, and it makes me think of reading the book of John. It’s one of my favorite books in the Bible, and I like reading it. I have been noticing references to pieces of John all the time lately, and I want to sit down and read it like a novel or a short story.
Here...
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It Cut Through Two Pigs! →
The third was Deadliest Warrior’s test of a katana. It sliced clean through two pig carcasses in one stroke.
All of that to say: the sword metaphor in Hebrews 4:12 is serious business.
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“Without dangerous things, a story tends to be tedious.”
– Lemony Snicket (in the introduction to Noisy Outlaws, Unfriendly Blobs, and Some Other Things That Aren’t Scary, Maybe, Depending on How You Feel About Lost Lands, Stray Cellphones, Creatures from the Sky, Parents Who Disappear in Peru, a Man Named Lars Farf, and One Other Story We... 