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Blog Entry | Higher Education >
If Jesus were pastoring in a mainline, Protestant church today, and asked the same question scribes and scholars ask in Mark 12.28-31, I think he’d omit the “. . . as you love yourself” part.   Not because its outdated or bad advice, don’t get me wrong, but because the li ...
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Posted by Barrett Owen with FV Editors
"The simple practice of eating is actually a clever and convenient spiritual tool of the highest order." ...
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  • Age: 28
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  • Religon: Cooperative Baptist Fellowship
  • Location: Atlanta, GA
Blog Entry | Spiritual Growth >
Posted by Barrett Owen
Love is much more of a daily decision than a feeling. I’m not sure I would have said this sentence five years ago.  Then I was still looking to gratify my own sensual and sexual needs.  I was coupling an imaginative story of success and happiness with these needs and ...
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A couple of years ago, I attended a graduation ceremony at a major university.  The keynote speaker was the chief surgeon at one of the nation’s leading hospitals.  I didn’t know him, but apparently he was a huge deal.As you might expect, he had a laundry list of credentials ...
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Posted by Barrett Owen
It seems to me that in order to join a church in today’s religiously charged culture, you have to do more that declare “Jesus is Lord!”  You also have to have an opinion on a litany of questions: MSNBC or Fox News? Republican or Democrat? Liberal or conservative? NPR or ...
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Posted by Barrett Owen
On the disciples went into the city to fulfill Jesus’ request. They are clueless as to why Jesus needs a donkey. They are clueless to the fact that they were participating in the in-breaking of God’s kingdom for Jerusalem. They are clueless they were fulfilling prophecy. Clueless Zecha ...
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Posted by Barrett Owen with Liminality
There is great irony in the gospel of the donkey-riding king on Palm Sunday. We must decide which story we are going to be a part of. ...
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Theologian N.T. Wright finds the parable of the fig tree to be quite strange, even "sinister." It’s a hard pill to take. ...
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Posted by Barrett Owen
Theologian N.T. Wright finds this parable of the fig tree to be quite strange.  He says, “This terrifying warning, about the political and military consequences of not heeding Jesus’ call to repent and change in Luke 13, is at once amplified by this almost humorous, yet in fact qu ...