On a church billboard near my parents’ house in Oregon I saw this sign: “People use Duct Tape to fix everything. God used nails.” I guffawed immediately – but then became sober as its many meanings sank in. God used
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God the Barber
The following parable explains the suffering in the world by comparing God to a barber. A man went to a barbershop to have his hair cut and his beard trimmed. As the barber began to work, they began to have
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Who would God vote for?
I just watched Barack Obama’s 30 minute infomercial and I find myself wondering – who will Christians vote for? What’s the ‘Christian’ thing to do? Obama wants to take care of everybody, end poverty, improve health care and education, and
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What’s on your pumpkin?
Halloween 2008 is just days away. I came home to Oregon to enjoy the fall, but ironically am missing the festivities in Taiwan, where we always enjoy celebrating Halloween. I’m eating the candy we bought for the kids and considering
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Why it’s fun to kill flesh eating zombies.
You may have noticed an increasing number of films and games sharing a common theme: a virus or chemical leaks out and turns civilization into the walking dead – zombies with a hunger for human flesh. In this post you’ll
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Big Love: Neurotic Polygamous Family
I could easily be a Polygamist. I like girls – and I’ve met many I would have a long term relationship with. If one, why not three? However, the TV series ‘big love’ makes me sick. Not because of the
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Babel and 9-11: God the terrorist destroys World Trade Center
In Genesis, God tells people to ‘Go Forth and Prosper’, and yet later he seems diametrically opposed to progress of any kind. When people start to live together and build bigger cities and make great towers like the tower of
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The Church of Google
The following link is a pretty strong argument that “Google” is in fact the closest thing to God we will ever know, displaying many traditional qualities of deity including omnipresence and omniscience. It’s pretty well done, humorous, and possible true.
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Fundamental Horror
I just saw an American scary movie about a little town with a population of 436 people. Everytime they had more than that number, they’d hang someone. 436 was a special number, a Divine number, which God had approved. The
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Pirates of the Caribbean
Pirates 3 was a great, great movie. Pirates of the Caribbean: At World’s End, had amazing action scenes, wonderful characters, settings and story. However, I suffered a general discomfort in the face of an elevated theme in the third pirate
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Jesus Camp
I finally watched a documentary I’ve been hearing about for some time. It’s called “Jesus Camp”, and takes a close look at Evangelical ministries aimed at teaching and using kids to spread the message of Jesus Christ. I was expecting
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300 = War on Terror
I just watched 300, the new graphic novel movie from Warner Brothers about 300 heroic Greeks who challenge an army of invaders. Visually, of course, the movie was stunning. The acting, the costumes, and the characters were superb, and the
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