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What if God is not a frog?
What if we dared to be kissed by the frog of our nightmares only to discover the Prince Charming of our dreams standing at the doorway to heaven? And what if he knelt at our feet and the shoe in his hand fitted us perfectly? And as we arose in bewildered response we were transformed…
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He’s nuttin’ like me!
Line them up. Listen to them. It’s quite a chorus! “I don’t think you should send me!” “He’s nobody!” “Do you know what she’s done?” “Marry her?” “Me, pregnant?” “She’s having a baby, and it’s God!” “Isn’t this the carpenter’s son?” “No.”, “Not just that…”, “Why not?” (Moses, David, Rahab, Hosea, Mary, Joseph, people of…
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Jesus ain’t no cookie cutter holy man
The reason for Jesus’ crowd appeal was quite simply that he connected with ordinary people. Pride, arrogance, and self-importance were not in his wardrobe and were entirely absent from his demeanor and countenance. We often talk about ‘thinking outside the box’ when we want to encourage creativity or fresh approaches to tired topics and predictable…
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Content in Chains
As long as I live I will never forget Osbiel Matsabula. I shared a small, simple cottage with him on the outskirts of Mbabane in Swaziland in 1975. We worked for an animal charity helping to develop a mobile clinic in the region, and Osbiel and I worked side by side driving the blood red…
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