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God, I think of how good I could make Christians look if . . .

I was lamenting to a friend last night (who became a Christian within the last year) how I try so hard to make Christianity attractive to our culture, but that it’s just so hard when the Bible says things Did you hear about the Christians who, instead of running from the plague as it spread through Europe But then my friend said, that is what attracted him to Christianity.

We should not primarily live our Christian lives by obeying universal rules established by one Christian

sometimes making our every day life as sensational as the most heroic movies, but when I say I’m a Christian Weigh the eternal risk and then act with courage and wisdom.

A friend told me today that he thinks Christianity is a sham because his father was a Christian. I’m really sorry to those of you who have paid the price for a Christian who said they were forgiven.

And I’m pretty excited because it would show Christians why we should treasure gay people, instead of In other words they can act as the “Single Unifier” in a group. Here’s what I mean. I have a close Christian friend who is gay and he chooses to wholly serve Jesus, even if it means he I watched a talk by an abstinent lesbian Christian, Julie Rogers a few months ago and she concluded that

What is one Christian thing you do that doesn't make sense to this world? Are you really just like the world, labeling yourself a Christian? tells me just do it, do I listen to my God, or am I really just like everyone else, wearing a label of Christian

And yet we Christians have talked ourselves into all these complex knots about concepts that don't need But I do know a true Physicist of the highest order whose passion is looking for Christian answers to He actually got pushed out of academia because he was teaching his ideas of how he was imagining the Christian It seems like a metaphor that breaks at every edge, yet it's the best Christians have. "The simple Christians could NEVER conceive of this brain game.

I was reading about Ananais and Sapphira in Acts 5. I think as the Christian community was settling into a direction it would go for the next 2000 years,

The cross wasn’t used in Christian images for the first few hundred years of Christianity, partly because Well, a little before the image of a cross became popular, a central image in Christianity was that of And the most powerful image that Christianity could muster was one of its own death. Of sacrifice.

I think most of modern Christian culture emphasizes grace and forgiveness, and that’s half of it, but If so, why on earth would He be acting like this? Acting out of trust on someone else’s request and seeing what happens, it turns out, is kind of cool.

But you’re saying you’re a Christian too?!” Steve was surprised. “You seem so smart.” “Christians can be smart.” “That’s hard for me to believe. saying show God to me in a way I can see proof, to know it with my senses, and maybe you’ll save a Christian “Wow, you DO think a Christian can be smart. I wish I had thought of that.