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I've been thinking a lot about prophecy recently.  A lot of it because, at least in Charismatic/Pentecostal circles, there seems to be a lot of "prophecies" and prophets wanting to sell these prophecies around.  So I've been trying to reach back in my brain to my Lee University days and remember what I learned about the markers of a prophet.  I learned a lot in classes about prophets and prophecy, but I learned a lot more by hearing actual prophets. The textbook definition of a prophet is someone who forth-tells or fore-tells the word of God.  So it's someone that brings forth God's word for a nation, a church, a situation; or someone that can tell the future; or both. Now because I've grown up in Pentecostal circles, I am extremely cautious when a "prophet" wants to start telling the future.  There was always someone trying to sell a book to predict when Jesus would come back or when God would judge America or when we would be attacked by...
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process

I wrote this one in like 2008.... A couple weeks ago I listened to a talk given by Floyd McClung Jr. The overall topic was being a good and loving neighbor. He's passionate about loving others though service and making yourself available for the Holy Spirit to work through you. In the middle of the talk, he reflected on his experience at Bible College: "For four or five years people were storming through school to learn something and became very calloused and cynical in the process. I don’t know of a greater hot bed of cynicism in the United States than Christian Colleges because you can see it all and get all the theory and practice very little of it because you don’t have time. That’s a dangerous state to be in. If you have to take ten or twelve credit hours and take 6 years to get through but you become what you’re learning, you’ll be a far wiser person. Don’t hear it and not practice it. The biblical words for knowledge never separate the cognitive processes fr...
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When Jesus Broke the Law

Mark 3:1-6 Another time Jesus went into the synagogue, and a man with a shriveled hand was there.  Some of them were looking for a reason to accuse Jesus, so they watched him closely to see if he would heal him on the Sabbath.  Jesus said to the man with the shriveled hand, "Stan up in front of the everyone." Then Jesus asked them, "Which is lawful on the Sabbath:  to do good or to do evil, to save life or to kill?" Buy they remained silent. He looked around at them in anger and, deeply distressed at their stubborn hearts, said to the man, Stretch out your hand.  He stretched it out, and his hand was completely restored.  Then the Pharisees went out and began to plot with the Herodians how they might kill Jesus." In this story, Jesus breaks the law.  Did that mean that Jesus did a bad thing?  Did that mean that the law was bad? I don't have much commentary on this story except that I think it's good to remember sometimes doing the right thing...
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