Social Issues

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 [...]

30 April by Thom Hunter

“At the Statue of Jesus, Turn Left”

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As more decades descend upon my timeline, my confusion about the perfect randomness of God, as He demonstrates His all-knowingness, does not unravel, but remains tightly wound, safely bound by trust. I often do not know how or why His will is what it is, and my clarity remains unclear on the entire “God allows” [...]

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 [...]

10 February by David Rogers

The Mordecai Dilemma

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Here’s a little exercise in advanced level hermeneutics for some of you theological thinkers out there. I came across this passage the other day, and although I have read it various times in the past, the implications of what it said struck me like never before, and quite frankly, left me a bit perplexed. The [...]

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 [...]

7 December by Andrew Wencl

Applying Lessons from Penn State to Pine Chapel

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The news and the general blogosphere have been giving a bigger emphasis to issues of child abuse and criminal sexual misconduct since the Penn State scandal broke loose. Within a short period of time Albert Mohler, President of the Southern Baptist Theological Seminary, updated the school’s policy regarding the obligation to report instances of child [...]

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, [...]

28 November by David Rogers

Adrian Rogers on Solving the Problems of the World and the Mission of the Church

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I just came across this quote, and thought it was pretty relevant to the current discussion on the mission of the church. Now the problem with the world today is we’ve never really seen where the problem is. And the heart of the human problem is the problem of the human heart, which is desperately [...]

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 [...]

31 October by David Rogers

Mormons, Missionary Strategy, and American Politics

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The place was Badajoz, Spain, the time about 15 years ago. I was at that time missionary-pastor of the local Baptist church, back when there was still a place for that type of assignment within IMB strategy. We were hosting a few volunteer workers from the States, and that night they wanted to eat hamburgers, [...]

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