This morning I answered a listener's email who asked to be removed from our mailing list. That happens a lot. This particular man was upset about my friendship with a fairly well-known Christian leader and wanted nothing to do with anybody who had anything to do with that Christian leader. We, of course, took his …

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From Tullian Tchividjian: I once assumed the gospel was simply what non-Christians must believe in order to be saved, while afterward we advance to deeper theological waters. But I've come to realize that the gospel isn't the first step in a stairway of truths, but more like the hub in a wheel of truth. As …

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1 Aaron's sons Nadab and Abihu took their censers, put fire in them and added incense; and they offered unauthorized fire before the LORD, contrary to his command. 2 So fire came out from the presence of the LORD and consumed them, and they died before the LORD. 3 Moses then said to Aaron, "This …

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From Jill Carattini at RZIM: A special report on This American Life follows the lives of several people currently living what they unequivocally call "Plan B." Host Ira Glass expounds his thoughts on an informal poll and a seemingly universal human reality: He asked a room of hundred people to think back to the beginning …

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Some me die by shrapnel, some men die by flames, most men die inch by inch playing silly little games. CT Studd

We are so utterly ordinary, so commonplace, while we profess to know a Power the Twentieth Century does not reckon with. But we are "harmless," and therefore unharmed. We are spiritual pacifists, non-militants, conscientious objectors in this battle-to-the-death with principalities and powers in high places.  Meekness must be had for contact with men, but brass, …

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