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Commercials usually don’t grab my attention when I’m watching TV, but this ad by Discover Card stopped me the other night.

“We’re a nation of Consumers,” the voice matter-of-factly announces, “and there’s nothing wrong with that.”  “After all, there’s a lot of cool stuff out there.”  The commercial then goes on to assert that the “material [...]

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I’ve been thinking quite a bit lately about the buzzwords and catch phrases and all the other “church” language Christians like to use. Words like, evangelism, discipleship, “good news,” faith, mission, and so on. One the most popular and overused of these phrases is “the kingdom of God.”  Now, I’ve already expressed my distaste with [...]

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Jesus and taxes.  
I don’t know how many times I’ve heard people defend blind trust and obedience in their government by appealing to Jesus’ statement: “Render unto Caesar what is Caesar’s and to God what is God’s” (my paraphrase), which seems at the surface to be in support of the [...]

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