Kingdom

Where Is the Kingdom of God?

November 8, 2007
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It’s fascinating to see how divisive the interpretation of a single line of the Bible can be. People ask, “How should a line be translated? What was the original intent?” as if there is some secret decoder key. The exact intent is important only when you begin to base your entire ideology on the literal interpretation of the Bible. Then, an exact translation is very important. Otherwise, you are not sure what to believe in.

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Just What the Founders Feared…

July 23, 2007

“Given how intent Bush is on expanding his authority, it is startling to recall how the Constitution’s framers viewed presidential power. They were revolutionaries who detested kings, and their great concern when they established the U.S. was that they not accidentally create a kingdom. To guard against it, they sharply limited presidential power.”

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The Dancing Hamster is Dead

May 1, 2007

Late one night in grad school, I was up studying way too long. You know the kind of studying where it’s just making things worse by staying up so late. When I get really tired I tend to get a little goofy and laugh at anything. Well, I took a break from studying and went online to check the news and I somehow ended up on a page with a bunch of hamsters dancing and a looped audio clip that sounded like a drunken chipmunk yodeling. I couldn’t stop laughing. The combination of sleeplessness, caffeine, stress, boredom, and goofiness created a perfect storm of about 5 minutes of non-stop laughing. It was just about the funniest thing I had ever seen. In fact, every morning my alarm is set to the drunken chipmunk yodeling song because it is so annoyingly funny that you have to wake up.

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What Would Jesus Say?

August 19, 2005

Where Is God?

Luke 17:20 And when he was demanded of the Pharisees, when the kingdom of God should come, he answered them and said, The kingdom of God cometh not with observation. Luke 17:21 Neither shall they say, Lo here! or, lo there! for, behold, the kingdom of God is within you.

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