The Dance – Part 4

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Dancing with Joy

“Kids: they dance before they learn there is anything that isn’t music.”

– William Stafford

It’s one of my favorite memories and we have it recorded on video.  Zachary, our firstborn, was three.  Colby’s Missing Memory had just been released on VHS (let me explain for the young people…it’s kind of like an 8 track…no that really won’t work.  It’s a plastic black rectangle thing we watched movies on before the DVD).  The star, Colby, was a large robot.  He was sad because he had lost his memory of what friendship was.  His band of young singers and dancers helped him find it again.  Continue reading

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Last Century Missionary

missionaryThere are 7,000 people groups on the earth who have never heard the sweetest name we know.  Who will go and tell them about the unsearchable riches in Christ Jesus?

The Malachi Network exists to:  “Make the name of the LORD great among the nations.” Malachi 1:11 Continue reading

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Missing the Mark?

Bullseye-Missing-TargetMaybe our definition of sin needs some work. . .

Most of us have defined sin as “missing the mark.”  That is a pretty good rendering of the Greek word for sin.  But does missing the mark really seem so bad?

“Oh well, I missed the mark.  Better luck next time.” Continue reading

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The Dance – Part 3

 Dancing and the Bibledancing

“God is dead.”  –  Friedrich Nietzsche

Those three simple words became a movement under German philosopher, Friedrich Nietzsche.  He once wrote in a letter to a friend:

“If these Christians want me to believe in their god, they’ll have to sing better songs, they’ll have to look more like people who have been saved, they’ll have to wear on their countenance the joy of the beatitudes.  I could only believe in a god who dances.”[1] Continue reading

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The Dance – Part 2

marchingI believe that Jesus still speaks.  What He says today does not come with the same authority as the Holy words in the Bible.  But He is alive right now and He’s not disengaged or disinterested.  Continue reading

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