SBC & American Culture

11 May by Thom Hunter

President Obama Takes Brokenness to the Bank

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“This is something that, you know, we’ve talked about over the years and she, (Michelle) you know, she feels the same way, she feels the same way that I do. And that is that, in the end the values that I care most deeply about and she cares most deeply about is how we treat [...]

17 April by Thom Hunter

At the Corner of Grace and Gray

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Neither do men light a candle and put it under a bushel, but on a candlestick, and it giveth light unto all that are in the house.  – Matthew 5:15 God created minds . . . and people think pure and impure thoughts God created hearts . . . and people love and hurt. God [...]

6 April by Thom Hunter

The Line Between Almost and Always

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Then Jesus came to them and said, “All authority in heaven and on earth has been given to me. Therefore go and make disciples of all nations, baptizing them in the name of the Father and of the Son and of the Holy Spirit, and teaching them to obey everything I have commanded you. And [...]

27 March by Thom Hunter

Dear Christian: You’re Scaring Them to Death

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Sometimes the distances between what people know of you . . . and what they think of you . . . and what you know of yourself . . . and what you think of yourself . . . and what is true of all of this knowledge and all of these thoughts when sifted [...]

7 March by Thom Hunter

A Bridge Between Night and Day

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In the soft moonlight of midnight, shadows dancing against the baby-blue wall of the nursery from a cottonwood tree moving gently in the nighttime breeze, it is party time.  The baby is awake and searching for his toes, his pacifier, his blanket, his mommy or his daddy.  He is ready for his day to begin; he [...]

23 February by Thom Hunter

Remember Who You Are

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God is not human, that he should lie, not a human being, that he should change his mind. Does he speak and then not act? Does he promise and not fulfill? Numbers 23:19 Flee. Run. Hide. Seek. Turn. Emerge. Rinse and repeat? For too many people, life has become an extended game of playground freeze [...]

9 February by Thom Hunter

The Life We Can’t Erase

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  And He who sits on the throne said, “Behold, I am making all things new.” – Revelation 21:5 I wish — though I don’t believe in wishes — that I could take a number two pencil and write down on a blue-lined piece of three-hole-punched notebook paper the moments of my life, label it [...]

2 December by Thom Hunter

The New Math of Forgiveness

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  Jesus said, “Father, forgive them, for they do not know what they are doing.” — Luke 23:34 Nothing hurts like hurting about hurts that make you hurt others. What a compound of pain that leads us to do unto others because something was done unto us and we’ve come all undone over it. So, [...]

17 November by Thom Hunter

Another Blind Eye to a Small Boy’s Cry

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(Note: Once again, little ones have gone unprotected, with small boys victimized by both the twisted and broken and the blind and indifferent. I was sexually- abused decades ago, at the age of 8.  No victim ever forgets.  For the hope of the Penn State small boys and other children being abused, often despite the [...]

1 November by Thom Hunter

“Who Told You You Were Naked?”

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One of the most discouraging aspects of battling a deeply-internalized sexual issue or other commanding presence of repetitive sin is that, even after you face it, fight it, and deprive it, something in that deep-internal goes right back to work to revive it. You choke it, pound it, bury it, surrender it and then, before [...]

21 October by Thom Hunter

The Lengthening Shadow of Pro-Gay Theology

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For the time will come when people will not put up with sound doctrine. Instead, to suit their own desires, they will gather around them a great number of teachers to say what their itching ears want to hear. They will turn their ears away from the truth and turn aside to myths. — I [...]

14 September by Thom Hunter

This is No Place for Cowards

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I carry the past that each day I chose One step to another . . . now everyone knows. It isn’t the past I would have wanted to claim But it is my past . . .  it is mine just the same. I wonder sometimes about all of this Can there be no exchanging [...]

6 July by Thom Hunter

The Devilish Debate Over Choice vs. Chance

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Don’t take credit for not falling into a sin that never tempted you in the first place. — Billy Graham The clash between pro-gay culture and the church is turning into a tragic comedy with about the air-time quality of a 20-year-old 2 a.m. TV-Land repeat. Snooze. Who loses? Truth loses. I think sometimes we [...]

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