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Oh, So You Thought Heartbreak Was A Bad Thing?

by andrewkooman on November 1, 2010

Thought this was a kung-pow way to start the month: The first thing God does is get us grounded on strong reality and truth. He does this until our cares for ourselves individually have been brought into submission to His way for the purpose of His redemption. Why shouldn’t we experience heartbreak? Through those doorways [...]

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The Bible’s Shocking Four Letter Words

by andrewkooman on September 1, 2010

Have you ever been shocked at the four-letter words in the Bible?  Sometimes they offend me more than the four-letter words I hear on the street, because they offend and upend my whole view of things. Scripture, for instance, has the gall to tell you to go and find yourself and then shows you just [...]

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Obomb: Drudgery

by andrewkooman on June 15, 2010

I thought this a challenging and weighty word to sift through this morning. You have inherited the Divine nature, says Peter (v.4), now screw your attention down and form habits, give diligence, concentrate. “Add” means all that character means. No man is born either naturally or supernaturally with character, he has to make character. Nor [...]

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Gracious Uncertainty

by andrewkooman on May 1, 2010

He did it again.  Got me good: Our natural inclination is to be so precise—trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next—that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We think that we must reach some predetermined goal, but that is not the nature of the spiritual life. The nature of the spiritual [...]

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What I Don’t Know

by andrewkooman on March 13, 2010

Don’t worry.  It’s not an exhaustive list.  We do not have space enough or time. You ever read something and feel like everything you know or knew just doesn’t cut it? I’m motivated by a line from one of the best book’s I’ve read, during an arc in the narrative that cut through my flesh [...]

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Uncertain, and Rightly So

by ak on April 29, 2009

Oswald Chambers has a way of reading my mail.  He did so today: Our natural inclination is to be so precise— trying always to forecast accurately what will happen next— that we look upon uncertainty as a bad thing. We think that we must reach some predetermined goal, but that is not the nature of [...]

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