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2012-04-06T08:32:36-08:00

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Today no one gets saved

Last updated on: April 6, 2012 at 8:32 am By John Shore

Good Friday. I didn’t casually choose the illustration: I never present violence, or anything meant to crudely shock. I haven’t seen Mel Gibson’s The Passion of the Christ; I assume this is a still from it. Either way, it shows what happened to Jesus, doesn’t it? The only reason to show it in any way less graphic would be in order to make us feel better. (more…) Read more

Christian Spirituality

2012-04-05T13:13:47-08:00

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The God we know loves them, exactly as they were born

Last updated on: April 5, 2012 at 1:13 pm By John Shore

I got this in yesterday evening (the bolding—emboldering? emboldenment? bolderizing? phatted-up?—is mine) Dear John, Thank you and bless you. I am not an American, in fact, I live on the other side of the world in Asia. (more…) Read more

Personal

2012-04-04T12:15:32-08:00

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Dear young friend in Anchorage: here’s why Prop 5 was defeated

Last updated on: April 4, 2012 at 12:15 pm By John Shore

In The New York Times this morning I found the article Gay Rights Bill Appears to Fail in Anchorage. I also found waiting for me an email from a follower of my blog in Anchorage, asking me to pen a word or two to his 14-year-old daughter about why Prop. 5 was defeated. So: Dear A: It’s touching to me that you care—and nearly heartbreaking that you—along with compassionate, sane people everywhere—are confounded as to why anyone would vote to... Read more

Christian Issues

2016-03-01T04:15:37-08:00

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Taking God at His Word: The Bible and Homosexuality

Last updated on: March 1, 2016 at 4:15 am By John Shore

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Author John Shore and his wife Catherine explain why claiming that the Bible condemns homosexuality is unbiblical, unChristian, and unfair. Read more

Christian Issues

2012-04-01T17:04:55-08:00

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“Fast Forward”: A Palm Sunday sermon by Pastor Bob

Last updated on: April 1, 2012 at 5:04 pm By John Shore

“It is all so wrong. This is not how the story should go. Betrayal, denial three times and now: public torture. Crucified along the main road into Jerusalem, he was a teacher, a rabbi now naked and dying between two criminals. It’s not fair. It’s not right. This is not justice. It is humiliation, dehumanization. It is to literally strip every shred of dignity, of grace, of life, of God from this man from Galilee.” (more…) Read more

Pastor Bob's Corner

2012-04-01T04:30:55-08:00

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Palm Sunday: Born to Ride

Last updated on: April 1, 2012 at 4:30 am By John Shore

Today, Palm Sunday, is the first day of the Christian Holy Week, when everyone in Palm Springs wakes up and exclaims right away, “We’re famous!” Kidding. They don’t. Unless they’re Christian. Then they kind of do. (more…) Read more

Christian Spirituality

2012-03-29T10:17:07-08:00

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Christian woman: “She’s pulled the plug on her own son, whom I love and cared for. How do I deal with my anger?”

Last updated on: March 29, 2012 at 10:17 am By John Shore

She has long cared and loved as a brother a special needs boy her family essentially adapted. The boy got seriously ill, and his mother pulled the plug on him. In her agony, as her loving "brother" dies, she writes me. Read more

Dear John

2012-03-29T06:54:53-08:00

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Woman whose 9-year-old was drugged and raped checks in

Last updated on: March 29, 2012 at 6:54 am By John Shore

This just came in, and thought I’d take a moment to share it, for those of my readers who did such a great job of showing our friend here the kind of love and support she needed to … well, end up writing me this (which I’m sharing with, of course and always, her permission): (more…) Read more

Relationships

2012-03-26T18:01:48-08:00

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Satan’s email to founder of National Organization for Marriage, Maggie Gallagher!

Last updated on: March 26, 2012 at 6:01 pm By John Shore

How weird is this? I just got in my inbox an email that was obviously supposed to go not to me, but to Maggie Gallagher, co-founder of National Organization for Marriage (NOM)! You can see from the screenshot that the email came from Satan! Weirdness #2: Satan loves emoticons. (more…) Read more

Christian Issues

2012-03-25T21:56:08-08:00

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Why this white Christian “leader” was silent about Trayvon Martin

Last updated on: March 25, 2012 at 9:56 pm By John Shore

A question that’s lately been raised in the blogosphere (here; here; here) is why more white Christian leaders haven’t spoken out against the death of Trayvon Martin. Putting aside the question of whether or not I’m a Christian leader (I’m not), when the story broke of young Martin’s death I did receive a number of requests to write about it. As touching and even humbling as those requests were, they also felt about on par with being asked to play a... Read more

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