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Stewardship and Love
1/28/2012

One of the most polarizing words in our culture is environment. It is highly politicized, with extremes on either side. Where is the middle way, the Christian ethos that rightly regards the world and our relationship to it? We ought to be conservative in our use of our world and liberal in our love for it.

It is certainly not Christian to oppress and destroy Creation to satisfy our consumerism. We must do what we can to mak...

Saying “Give Me” to God—1 Samuel 8:5
1/24/2012

It’s generally good to ask God for the things we want. It’s a way to show our dependence on him and treat him as the loving Father he is. But as with our earthly fathers, not every request we make is a good one. We can learn from some of the bad requests in the Bible—such as the time the Israelites asked for a king.

It’s hard to say whether or not a king was a good idea. Israel had been ruled by a series of ...