Dan on July 5th, 2008

How many of you are familiar with the story of Balaam and his donkey? (Num. 22:1-35)
This is an interesting story and as I was brought before me a couple of times recently.  My wife was going through it in her devotions and then it came up in mine.  She asked me a great question- “Why [...]

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Dan on June 14th, 2008

This week I was away at Messiah’s Confirmation Camp.  It was an incredible experience watching dozens of kids grow in faith and relationships over the four days and I think I’ll post something more on this sometime this coming week, but for the purposes of this morning I want to mention the fruit of the [...]

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I read a great little piece on the Wheat and the Tares or Parable of the Wees (Mtt. 13:24-30, 36-43), the other day by Reinhold Niebuhr. It really helped me think about this parable and our own culture in a little different way.
Sometimes within the Christian culture we get really mad at the postmodern [...]

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