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God’s Conditional Love

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 22 Oct 2009 15:09:00 +0000

From the American Vision blog: What is the question? Simply this: "If God loves me unconditionally, why does it matter how I live my life?" Or it could also be phrased this way:...

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Season Preview

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 21 Sep 2009 15:12:00 +0000

Wings season preview here.

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WHEW! Well, THAT’S one thing I don’t have to worry about now…

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 07 Sep 2009 01:10:00 +0000

I don’t know; I really think this is a very clever business model…

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Richard Dawkins: the Peter Ruckman of Atheists

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 11:52:00 +0000

Spot-on summary analysis here.

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Calvin Quote

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Tue, 04 Aug 2009 11:37:00 +0000

One of the books I'm reading is"John Calvin: A Pilgrim's life", and in it I just read a great sort of ''why grace changes everything" quote: Namely, that we see God as the only...

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Mike Foster: The Necessity of Church as Mother

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 03 Aug 2009 15:38:00 +0000

Very insightful and very spot-on blogpost here: American Christianity has been severely synchronized to the idol of individualism. This has been clearly illustrated to me time and time again by...

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Discussing Christian Freedom

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 23 Jul 2009 12:24:00 +0000

Friend and fellow-pastor Tom Spithaler discusses Christian freedom here.

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The Cost of Discipleship

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 15 Jul 2009 14:38:00 +0000

The Chalcedon Foundation (a Reconstructionist concern) publishes a bimonthly magazine dealing with various issues of the Christian faith. In the most recent issue, author Martin Selbrede writes...

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Riverside

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 20:24:00 +0000

Interesting view here on the decline of respect for clergy in modern America…especially how it ties said decline with a corresponding rise in “professionalism” in the ministry. Today they are...

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Open Letter to President Obama

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Tue, 14 Jul 2009 19:22:00 +0000

Interesting article here by Harry Jackson: All too often, both the press and politicians view the African-American community as a monolithic group that will go wherever the cultural winds blow...

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AV: The Church of the First Adam

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 09 Jul 2009 17:32:00 +0000

I subscribe to a very large variety of newsletters, e-zines, and regular dead-tree magazines, and mostly from different theological perspectives than the ones I happen to subscribe to. This is...

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When the Body becomes a Business

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 21:23:00 +0000

The article Daniel quotes here is absolutely spot-on. I mean – wow.

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Perspective

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 08 Jul 2009 12:00:00 +0000

Amid today's orgy of adulation over Michael Jackson, we should pause and remember real heroes--men and women who paid the ultimate price for this nation, but whose lives go uncelebrated. ...

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Cicero

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 18:08:00 +0000

This has floated around the interwebs for a while, but I thought it apropros considering our modern American experience: The budget should be balanced, the Treasury should be refilled, public...

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How Not To Help The Poor

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Mon, 06 Jul 2009 17:51:00 +0000

Interesting response to the religious left here. Liberals like Colmes believe that redistributing wealth by taking it from the rich and giving it to the poor will create an equitable society....

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However…

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 14:13:00 +0000

Let me be very clear: I am a Zionist. Absolutely, unrepentantly, completely behind Israel and the Jewish people. Not only for theological reasons (though those of course are paramount) but for...

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Unbelievable.

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 25 Jun 2009 13:34:00 +0000

Get this: not only does the Iranian government crack down on pro-Democracy demonstrators by shooting into the crowd, but they now say that the family of an innocent bystander murdered by Iranian...

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Excellent point…

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 18:53:00 +0000

From the article “Why Condemn Israel But Not Iranian Government Brutality?” The European Left, the Democrats, the Liberals, the leaders of the West, all go rampant when Israel attacks the Gaza...

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Define “Irony…”

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 15:00:00 +0000

Perez Hilton, who came down on Carrie Prejean for her answer during the recent Miss Amerca pageant, apparently came unglued when someone else he’d…ah…commented on didn’t take kindly to it. Per...

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The One

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 14:11:00 +0000

This is a great parable-ish undoubtedly prophetic comedy-but-not-really-all-that-funny-given-how-pathetically-true-it-actually-is blogpost by my friend and fellow pastor Tom Spithaler. You must go...

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Anglicanism: A New Hope

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 11:34:00 +0000

I was raised Episcopalian, so I consider this to be good news, indeed. After the Phantom Menace of gross theological liberalism began growing in the Episcopal Church, and after the Attack of...

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SUPER BARRY…!!!

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Sun, 21 Jun 2009 12:10:00 +0000

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Do ya think…?

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 16:42:00 +0000

Ministry Today’s article, Is Our Gospel Becoming Too Social.

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Supercessionism

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 20:44:00 +0000

Blog friend and general all-around cool sister in Christ, Vee (of Living Journey fame) clued me in to a new book out, The Jews, Modern Israel, and the New Supercessionism. I haven’t read...

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Vision

noreply@blogger.com (mike macon) — Thu, 18 Jun 2009 15:10:00 +0000

I just read an excellent word from a pastor friend on another blog regarding the issue of “vision”: I think we need to depart form the idea of the pastor having a vision for the whole church,...

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