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Conscience Excerpt--Chapter 2

By Chris Jackson

May 26, 2013

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I’m not sure if I’ll post a chapter every week, but I thought I would add at least a few more excerpts from my book Conscience. Chapter Two So there I was, leaning over the body. Crimson stains streaked up and down my forearms as I worked frantically at reviving…

The Hole in our Gospel--Reading Program Week Seven

By Chris Jackson

May 24, 2013

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Chapter Five: The Three Greatest Commandments So how are you doing in your reading? We’re seven weeks into our collective reading of The Hole In Our Gospel and I imagine that you’re beginning to craft ideas of what we could potentially do through Grace Church to contribute to God’s mercy…

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Pretending until it's real

By Chris Jackson

May 23, 2013

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“All mortals tend to turn into the thing they are pretending to be.” Thus said Screwtape, the shrewd demon mentor, to Wormwood, the demon-in-training, in C.S. Lewis’ classic The Screwtape Letters. I think Screwtape was onto something. Self-help and success experts have long preached the virtue of acting in ways…

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The Hole in our Gospel Reading Program--Week Six

By Chris Jackson

May 17, 2013

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Chapter Four: The Towering Pillars of Compassion and Justice Kidnapping…trafficking…children forced to serve as violent soldiers…sexual exploitation…these horrifying acts of human degradation are nearly too gruesome to fathom. As Richard Stearns said, if Satan is alive and manifesting himself in our world, he is surely present in these places of…

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The Greatest Christian Myth Ever Told

By Chris Jackson

May 16, 2013

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“God will never give you more than you can carry.” I’m not sure how this phrase became so widely popularized because it’s not even remotely true. God often gives us more than we can carry, and the weight of our daily burdens routinely threatens to crush us. Moses said, “I…

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