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Mud Slinging!
A washed pig returns to the mud.
A pig is a pig. When we wallow in the mud, we need to be washed. But a
washing is a temporary solution. Asking for forgiveness for our sins is
required. But we need more than a cleansing. We need a transformation:
no longer a sinner returning to the mud, but now a spirit-filled disciple
following Christ.
A Prayer begins . . .
Our Father in heaven, you deserve our regular praise. Who but you has
taught us to share our homes and resources cheerfully with those in need and to surrender
all of our cares to you. Is it any wonder we revere you. Wash us clean and help us
stay that way.
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A Different Drummer!
Category: Christian Living
ISBN: 0310233151
Keywords: gospels, Jesus,
noncomformity, alien, religious, pagans, Zacchaeus, defrauded, God, nonconformist,
different drummer
"Read the gospels and you'll see how Jesus' nonconformity in religious
and pagan culture made him somewhat alien to both. The religious were
suspicious because Jesus partied with pagans--drunkards, prostitutes, and tax
collectors, to name a few. The pagans loved Jesus' company, but eventually were
uncomfortable when he challenged them to make
radical changes in
their personal lives. The woman caught in the act of adultery was forgiven, but was also
told to go and sin no more. Zacchaeus, the tax collector, ended up repaying everyone he
had defrauded and giving half his wealth to the poor.
Because Jesus was determined to please God instead of humans, he was a nonconformist.
In fact, Jesus was a winsome, compelling character precisely because God--not the
culture nor the religious subculture--set his daily agenda. He clearly marched to the
beat of a different drummer."
SoAmazing Review: In Too Christian Too Pagan,
Dick Staub wants Christians to engage people where they are at in the culture.
An imitation, if you will, of what Jesus did.
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Shouts, Screams, Sobbing
Category: Fiction
ISBN: 0842329153
Keywords: underground shelter, ventilation shaft, church, caged animal, prayed, heaven, Tyndale House Publishers, Inc., LaHaye, Tim LaHaye, Jenkins, Jerry B. Jenkins
"Cameron 'Buck' Williams stepped gingerly through the rubble near the ventilation shaft
where he had heard the clear, healthy voice of Rabbi Tsion Ben-Judah, trapped in the
underground shelter. Tsion assured him he was unhurt, just scared and claustrophobic.
That place was small enough without the church imploding above it. With no way out
unless someone tunneled to him, the rabbi, Buck knew, would soon feel like a caged
animal.
Had Tsion been in immediate danger, Buck would have dug with his bare hands to free
him, But Buck felt like a doctor in triage, having to determine who most urgently
needed his help. Assuring Tsion he would return, he headed toward the safe house to
find his wife.
To get
through the trash that had been the only church home he ever knew, Buck had to again
crawl past the remains of the beloved Loretta. What a friend she had been, first to the
late Bruce Barnes and then to the rest of the Tribulation Force. The force had begun
with four: Rayford, Chloe, Bruce, and Buck. Amanda was added. Bruce was lost. Tsion
was added.
Was is possible now that they had been reduced to just Buck and Tsion? Buck didn't want
to think about it. He found his watch gunked up with mud, asphalt, and a tiny shard of
windshield. He wiped the crystal across his pant leg and felt the crusty mixture tear
his trousers and bite into his knee. It was nine o'clock in the morning in Mt. Prospect,
and Buck heard an air raid siren, a tornado warning siren, emergency vehicle sirens--one
close, two farther away. Shouts. Screams. Sobbing. Engines.
Could he live without Chloe? Buck had been given a second chance; he was here for a
purpose. He wanted the love of his life by his side, and he prayed--selfishly, he
realized--that she had not already preceded him to heaven."
SoAmazing Review: Another calamity strikes and leaves
Rabbi Tsion Ben-Judah trapped in an underground shelter, Loretta dead, Chloe missing and
Buck frantic to find her. If its action you like, its action you get in this page turner
by LaHaye and Jenkins.
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