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Missing the forest for the trees (part 1)
How many people have turned their backs on the church of their childhood, because they tired of the constant legalistic admonitions? Don’t do this, don’t do that. As Dave Kinnaman has suggested, what...
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Missing the forest for the trees (part 2)
Do this; don’t do that. As suggested in the previous post, it’s possible to reduce the ethics of the Christian life to a set of behavioral rules, drawing lines between the permissible and the...
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People-pleasing
Every once in a while, I’ll hear someone say with regret, “I’m just too much of a people-pleaser.” What they mean is something like: I know I should have better boundaries; I know I need to say “no”...
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What about Halloween?
A friend of mine used to sound me out when he was trying to make up his mind about something. He’d ask my opinion, then add, “And don’t do the professor thing. I don’t want both sides of the issue. I...
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