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Life’s Rhythms & the Telling of Time

Contemplating affection for eternity in the passing of days

Time, then, becomes something more to us than the measured span of what we do. There is also the frightening contemplation of what is not done: tasks uncompleted, people unvisited, God’s grace unacknowledged.

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Making Place for Time

Sin wickedly ascribes an evil character to time

In the beginning, time possessed no argument with the creator or creature, but showcased the passing moments in which God revealed himself to man in his creation. If believers for the moment must still feel the pinch of time in space, that is the effect of sin and not time itself.

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Defacing the Truth, Destroying the Conscience

Terrence Malick’s film reminds us that the present becomes a horrible future after we join hands to misconsider the past

“What we do is just create sympathy. We create…we create admirers. We don’t create followers."

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Power, Privilege, & Potluck Dinners

A simple meal as the unlikely demonstration of the gospel's power

In capitals all around the world, men devise many means to encourage or impose even the most tenable of unities. Against these efforts are raised the schemes of still other clever men, attempting another new unity to replace the last. The church is to stand outside the circle of these efforts, preaching a gospel that displays a different kind of power.

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Refitting an Analogy

Jesus Christ makes the mercy of God apprehensible

Justice and mercy are not merely principles to be balanced by bureaucrats, but they find their source and definition in the very character of God. He is both just and merciful in a perfection to which his creatures are incapable and too often insensible. We are in need of an analogy.

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