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SALVATION BY EXTINCTION: MINDFULNESS MEDITATION
Since the 1970s, Mindfulness Meditation has been promoted as a therapeutic technique to treat PTSD, stress, anxiety, depression, insomnia, and pain. Used by Fortune 500 companies, medical clinics, hospitals, the military, and prisons, it has become a billion dollar-a-year industry. Attributed with the power to transform anxiety, negative thinking and behavior into peace, compassion, and…
Gunning for Gory
Claiming that guns are the cause of violence merely shows the vacuous logic and moral ineptitude of contemporary Western thinking in its attempt to silence a genuine sense of good and evil and falsely vilify the opposition. It is “the heart [that] is deceitful above all things and beyond cure. Who can understand it? I…
The Lessons of Christmas: Incarnation, Not Enlightenment
Waiting. I have vivid childhood memories of Christmas Eves spent looking under the Christmas tree, curiously trying to figure out what was inside the carefully wrapped boxes. Was it the toy truck I couldn’t stop talking about? Was it the action figure I spotted at the department store that I just knew I “had” to…
Giving Tuesday
If “Black Friday” is all about getting, “Giving Tuesday” is all about–giving. In a ministry like ours we get lots of satisfaction from giving. We give people a deep but simple understanding of life and the gospel in a confusing neo-pagan culture. To honor God we must remember that the Creator and the creation cannot…