Bonehead
Loved Through The Mud
Out of town, so I’m re-posting an old post: I love this quote from Helmut Thielicke: “Jesus did not identify the person with his sin, but rather saw in this sin something alien, something that really did not belong to him, something that merely chained and mastered him and from which he could free him…
Read MoreUggggghhhhhh!
We have a freezer in our garage where we keep all our frozen meats and vegetables. Apparently someone left it open probably two days ago and it wasn’t noticed until this morning. Questions: Who left it open? I blame the kids. It wasn’t me! It may have been me. I’m pretty sure it was me.…
Read MoreLeaving Las Vegas
In the movie Leaving Las Vegas, Sera (a prostitute) falls in love with a guy named Ben, who is drinking himself to death. She vows to accept him for who he is, tells him, “I know that you’ll never change” and gives him a silver flask for his birthday. In the end, Ben dies of…
Read MoreI Can Only Love You
When I do seminars on my book Guerrilla Lovers, I encourage people to pray, “Jesus, give me your heart for this person” every time they interact with anyone. So I loved this quote I read from Dorothy Day. She was the founder of the Catholic Worker movement, and wrote this in her diary about why…
Read MoreFollow The Victim
Rene Girard is a brilliant French philosopher and anthropologist and professor (later in life at Stanford). He became fascinated with the fact that in modern times a “marginalized” person assumes a moral authority, that we root for underdogs, that we celebrate victims. His fascination grew out of the fact that he could find nothing comparable…
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