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We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus’ hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking.

Brian D. McLaren

Too often we see the Bible through whatever lens we get from our culture.
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Bible Biblical Lenses
You are cleansed from guilt, and you are becoming a cleaner, healthier, more whole person.
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Healthier Person Understand
Seventh-Gay Adventists isn’t just a helpful movie, important for the way it can help congregations of any denomination deal graciously and truthfully with the issue of homosexuality.
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Art Gay Issues Truthfully
To be a Christian in a generously orthodox way is not to claim to have the truth captured, stuffed, and mounted on the wall
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Christian Wall Way
A friend of mine says that in the world of religion we often have ignorance on fire and intelligence on ice.
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Fire Ignorance Passion
A generous orthodoxy, in contrast to the tense, narrow, or controlling orthodoxies of so much of Christian history, doesn’t take itself too seriously. It is humble. It doesn’t claim too much. It admits it walks with a limp.
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Admit Christian Claim Orthodixes
When any sector of the Church stops learning, God simply overflows the structures that are in the way and works outside them with those willing to learn.
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Church Out Way Work
Sometimes I have experienced God in extraordinary ways – in dramatic surprises or soul-expanding insights or unexplainable mystical encounters.
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Encouragement Inspiration Spiritual
I googled some pictures of sundials to check that it was the tall shadow casting bit (it is) and then discovered that Saint Sulpice in Paris has a rather fascinating large gnomon- which I shall endeavour to see on my next visit to that fair city. Thanks for such a great word, which I shall try to remember.
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Country Discovered Gnomon Shadow Sundials
And what if, instead of arguing about which form is correct and legitimate, we were to honor, appreciate, and validate one another and see ourselves as servants of one grander mission, apostles of one greater message, seekers on one ultimate quest?
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Appreciate Granger Legitimate Mission
The cross is almost a distraction and false advertisement for God.
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Advertisements Crosses Distraction
We must never underestimate our power to be wrong when talking about God, when thinking about God, when imagining God, whether in prose or in poetry.
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Christian God Humble Poetry
I think it changes everything. You can say the same creed that you said before, but now it’s not a creed that grasps God in the fist of the words, but it’s a creed that points up to a beauty that’s beyond anybody’s grasp.
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Anybody Beauty Change Everything Grasp
The scarily brilliant Romantic poet and visionary William Blake dared to say what many of us have perhaps thought but kept to ourselves: “A good local pub has much in common with a church, except that a pub is warmer, and there’s more conversation.
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Brilliant Church Good Visionaries
What is dark matter? How did the big bang happen? Why does the speed of light appear to be absolute? Is cold fusion possible? How do you program a TV remote control?
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Appear Control Fusion Happen Matter Possible Remote
You can’t capture it in a word or a formula. When you get to that humble place where the beauty of God has overwhelmed you,
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God Humble Overwhelmed

We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus’ hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking.

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We should consider the possibility that many, and perhaps even all of Jesus’ hell-fire or end-of-the-universe statements refer not to postmortem [after death] judgment but to the very historic consequences of rejecting his kingdom message of reconciliation and peacemaking.

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