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Leaving the Shire
From the cozy confines of the Shire to the wider world of Middle-earth, my experiences shaped me into a socially-justice-oriented individual.
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At some point during the week, an outdoor light on the side of the Pentecostal church I attended in college caught fire. I will always find the neighbor’s reported reaction quite humorous: “I’ve heard of stuff like this happening over there!” We, of course, weren’t running around setting our lights on fire. But we were…
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As the mighty rushing wind of the Holy Spirit blows through the early church, their lives are empowered and transformed into something different. The new creation to come begins to burst out of these Christians in power, in character, and even sociologically.
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Urban Jackson is built on dividing lines Severed by roads that hold back The Bride of Christ from embodying herself In her truest form: A multi-ethnic beauty that refuses The socio-economic boundaries That society declares “must exist” “No” rebukes our King For he is just as much for them as for you He is no…
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After Adam and Eve sinned, they and their predecessors would have to deal with the consequences. But they were not left without hope, for God promised that one day a descendant of Eve would rise up and destroy the serpent for what he had done. And as the Bible continues on, this coming-child’s genetic line…
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As weird as it sounds, in ancient cosmology the peaks of the earth overlapped with the depths of the Heavens. Therefore, you might run into a spiritual being if you moved high enough in elevation. Even the Bible carries this view as God often shows up in mountaintop experiences, be it Eden, Sinai, Mount Zion,…
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“What if we flipped a coin?” a friend once proposed. “I mean, we like both applicants the same amount and the disciples more or less did the same thing when they chose Matthias to take Judas’s place as the twelfth disciple.” I hadn’t been given a proposal quite like that before. There were lots of…
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“Hold,” my wife said as I got ready to try to kick a demon out in a deliverance session. She sensed the Holy Spirit had more he needed to deal with before we removed it. “I feel like there’s something connected to their left hand.” She had no idea how accurate she was. No one…
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God sometimes takes risks on us, even before we’ve proved ourselves or our character. This can lead to prophets like Jeremiah, whom God consecrated and appointed before he was even conceived in his mother’s womb. Would Jeremiah’s free will get in the way of his preordained calling? Fortunately, no—though Jeremiah would complain about his calling…
