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The Prophetic Voice

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Consider this bit of “angry rant”: How blessed will be the one who seizes and dashes your little ones Against the rock. Pretty unnerving, huh?  Vile!  Disgusting!  The author?  The Psalmist in Psalm 137 (verse 9) ,  the same one who wrote : By the rivers of Babylon,  There we sat down and wept,  When we remembered Zion.  (137:1) Think Continue Reading

A Peculiar Prophet: On NOT Reaching Our Culture Through Our Preaching

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Willimon gave a pretty clear explanation of the "cultural battle" we really face Sometimes in leaning over to speak to the modern world, I fear that we may have fallen in! When, in our sermons, we sought to use our sermons to build a bridge from the old world of the Bible to the new modern world, the traffic was Continue Reading