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The Inscrutable God
Posted on September 25, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.There is a joke that goes like this. A grizzled old man and a teen were having a conversation. The man said, “You young people today. All of you are ignorant and apathetic. Why is that?” The teen shrugged and responded, “I don’t know and I don’t care.” That was the charge against God by […]
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Forgive Me Not
Posted on September 12, 2017 by sdgale in Finding Forgiveness.There is a debate going on. No surprise there. But this one is more low key than ESS or DACA and without the vitriolic comment threads. It’s in response to the question of whether we should forgive someone who does not ask for our forgiveness, or does not show repentance in the asking. The reasoning […]
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Six Symptoms of Spiritual Heart Failure
Posted on September 8, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I was on the tennis court, ready to receive serve, when I felt dizzy. The next thing I hear is the staticky radio voices of emergency personnel as I am being wheeled on a gurney to the waiting ambulance. That set me on an unplanned crash course on heart disease that included knowing symptoms of […]
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Refusing to be Encouraged
Posted on April 24, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.You know how some people can’t take a compliment? You tell them “great job,” but they deflect the praise or explain it away. Some more pious folks will immediately point to God and say that it’s all of God. No it’s not. Sure, we are to cast down our golden crowns before God in recognition […]
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The Bottle Dungeon
Posted on April 17, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.I can’t imagine what it would be like to be buried alive. Utter and absolute darkness. Trapped. A living death. No way out. It makes me consider what hell would be like. The Bible describes hell as a place of punishment, reserved for those who rebel against God. The book of Revelation says that “if […]
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Fig-uring Out Christ’s Concern for His Father’s House
Posted on April 14, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.(This is the second of two articles related to Jesus’ teaching in Mark 11 that His Father’s house is to be a house of prayer. Click here for the first article. For more on the church as a house of prayer see Stanley D Gale, “God’s House of Prayer – Extreme Makeover Edition.”) “For it […]
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A House of Prayer is not the same as a Place of Prayer
Posted on April 10, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.(This is the first of two articles related to Jesus’ teaching in Mark 11 that His Father’s house is to be a house of prayer. For more on the church as a house of prayer see Stanley D Gale, “God’s House of Prayer – Extreme Makeover Edition.”) I sat toward the back of the rows […]
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How Jesus Fits In
Posted on February 20, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.“Madora came to believe that God and flowing water were much the same. How Jesus fits into this, she never understood or really cared.” That’s an insight into one her characters in a novel by Drucilla Campbell (Little Girl Gone, Grand Central Publishing, NY, 2012). Madora desperately wanted to believe in something greater than herself, […]
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Psalm 143 as a Template for Prayer in Temptation’s Hour
Posted on February 17, 2017 by sdgale in 'CHOP Talk' Blog.The psalms are wonderful guides for our prayer. What besetting sin have you fallen into again—overspending, pornography, alcohol, gambling, gluttony? Psalms 51 or Psalm 32 could provide a template for your prayer, leading you in confession of your sin. Another prospect would be to employ Psalm 143 to take you by the hand and lead […]
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Defining Forgiveness
Posted on February 5, 2017 by sdgale in Finding Forgiveness.The best way to grasp the meaning of forgiveness is not through a dictionary but a lectionary. While a dictionary can give us synonyms and phrases that carve out the contours of forgiveness, it is the unfolding story of redemption in Jesus Christ that brings the concept to us in three-dimensional glory and vivid […]
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