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The Rape of the Media

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Categories: creativity, food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), Rantings

Now THAT title ought to get me some Google hits. 🙂

Actually, at first glance, that title might seem to some like a contradiction. It sounds almost like “the media” (meaning the news media) are the victims, rather than the perpetrators as many of us often think of them.

However…that’s not what I mean by “media” here. 🙂 I am referring to the broader definition; any form of communication, particularly public communication, is a medium, not just journalism. Art, music, dance, literature, television, movies…all of them (and others) are the media I’m talking about.

So…who has been raping the media?

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Feed My Sheep

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Categories: food for thought, love, Meanderings (look it up)

I hate when I do this…something someone said on one of the blogs I read that helped to spark this post, but I let it sit too long while writing another series, and now I can’t remember who to link to. 🙂 So if you see something of your own content here, let me know.

For several years I’ve been pondering the dialogue Jesus had with Peter when they had breakfast together after the resurrection (John 21). Three times Jesus asked him, “Do you love Me?” And three times Peter answered, “You know that I love you.” There’s a lot of powerful meaning in the Greek words that are used, and many of you have probably heard teaching about it. But what Jesus said after each round of “Do you love Me”s has always puzzled me until recently:

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God Is In the Darkness (part 5: If I Descend into Sheol)

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up), theological questions

Where can I go from Your spirit? And where can I flee from Your presence? If I ascend to heaven, You are there; if I make my bed in Sheol, behold, You are there. –Psalm 139:7-8, NASB

A lot of my ponderings about God in the darkness have come from this verse. And as I finish up my ramblings about this before moving on to something else…it might be wise of me to remind you of the disclaimer I made in Part 1, i.e., that these are reflections, questions and ponderings, not a statement of doctrine or belief. Take it for what it is… 🙂

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God Is In the Darkness (part 2: The Broken Metaphor)

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

(If you’re just tuning in, you might want to start with part 1–please especially note the disclaimer at the beginning.)

My son The Director entered his teen years during the season I described in the last post, when I felt the need to be especially careful about what came into my home that might invite demonic attack.

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On How We Christians Got So Messed Up with Our Esckhatol…with Our End-Times Stuff

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), theological questions

This post ties in with one I posted three days ago…

So I’m continuing to ponder this whole thing about Christians and the interpretation of end-time prophecy in the Bible, and how I’ve sort of relaxed about trying to know the “right” interpretation (since there are obviously so many to choose from).

I grew up on pre-tribulation rapture theology, but to some extent I’ve heard pre-trib, post-trib, mid-trib, kingdom now (i.e., no rapture at all), and just about everything in-between. (Thankfully, I wasn’t there for the one that went, “Hey, let’s just all go right now. Just drink this punch.”)

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One Hand Tied Behind Our Back

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Categories: food for thought, healing wounds, Meanderings (look it up)

Studying the humanities in college (the study of man’s achievements in art, literature, architecture, science, etc.) was a pretty awesome experience for me. There are some folks, especially in religious circles, who look at the advancements we’ve made as a race and see nothing but our pride and rebellion. And I admit that factor exists. But when I look at all we’ve been able to create over the centuries, all we’ve been able to discover, to figure out…all the beauty, inspiration, engineering feats, and the like…I can’t help but see the truth that man was created in the image of God. We create, because we are made in the image of a Creator. And when we create, I think it is a reflection of God’s glory, even though sometimes we turn it to glorify ourselves. It is still the image-of-God factor inside us that enables us to achieve. And that goes for women as well as men.

So in the light of some of the recent discussions we’ve had on this blog…I invite you to ponder something with me:

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Hurricanes and Change

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Categories: food for thought, Meanderings (look it up)

In a couple of weeks, the hurricane season officially begins. I think hurricanes are captivating, a wonder to behold.

From the space shuttle.

I don’t live on the east coast or Gulf coast, and from June to December I am glad of that. Every time I am tempted to leave it all behind and find some tropical paradise somewhere to live out my days in relaxation and obscurity…I remember: “Hey, they gots HURRICANES down there!!” And I come back to reality, very thankful that, although I love to visit the ocean, I can go home if a hurricane threatens.

Hurricanes are of the devil. Or are they?

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Why I Deliver Flowers

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Categories: life, Meanderings (look it up), What the heck was THAT?

So here’s installment #28* of Questions Nobody Is Asking Me but Probably Would Have If They Thought of It:

Q: Why do you deliver flowers?

A: I don’t get asked this a lot by passers-by on the street: “Hey, what is a pastor-type dude like you doing, delivering flowers?” Of course, they don’t realize they have answered their own question. (What am I doing? Delivering flowers.)

But seriously, folks…

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Worship: the Sound of the Broken

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Categories: Meanderings (look it up), worship

Ben at live.awake posted something about worship last week that really spoke to my soul. (I’ve been waiting to write about this while Ben took care of some technical difficulties, but the link appears to be good now.)

In his post, Ben describes a recent worship service he attended where everything about the worship time seemed “normal” and “right.” And then something happened…let me give you an excerpt:

“The set ended, the lights went out…a large group of men came up on the stage. It was a choir made up of about 15 or so men from a local Teen Challenge camp…This choir was primarily made up of men who are former drug addicts.

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