Archive for February 2019
They’ll Never Be the Same
I love this picture from the Bible. Jesus being pressed by people wanting to hear a word from God. Luke 5:1 Now it happened that while the crowd was pressing around Him and listening to the word of God, Eric Liddell was the character the movie, Chariots of Fire, was based on. He was an Olympic Gold…
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The Bible is living, staying relevant to each generation. There is a passage in Isaiah that cuts through rhetoric, arguments, politics, the religious talk and “Christian-ese” and gets to the heart of a critical issue. Isaiah 5:20 “Woe to those who call evil good and good evil, who put darkness for light and light for darkness,…
Read MoreTake Responsibility
According to the 21st-century bastion of knowledge, Wikipedia, the expression “passing the buck” is said to have originated from poker, in which a marker was used to indicate the person whose turn it was to deal. If the player did not wish to deal he could pass the responsibility by passing the “buck.” Another attribution…
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