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Good Friday

AlbertApril 19, 2019

I was thinking about how Easter is all about our identification with Christ.  It’s why we feel this reflected glory on Easter morning.  But our identification is to be with Christ not just in His resurrection, but in His crucifixion, as well.  And so while Easter is a celebration of our resurrection with Him, today […]

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Christianity and CultureGirard, mob outrage, sacrifice, scapegoat, time horizonLeave a comment

Abundant Living

AlbertAugust 13, 2017August 13, 2017

In Time Horizon, we contrasted eternal and temporal perspectives on the events of one’s lifetime. Now we consider a sky-high Biblical perspective on the matter. I once became fed up with my lack of understanding of the old testament. Why do we lug that thing around, when only the new testament seems relevant? I’m confessing […]

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Moralityliving abundantly, purity, time horizon1 Comment

Time Horizon

AlbertAugust 13, 2017August 13, 2017

In Morality and Time, we discussed the individual subjective “time horizon” which is a consequence of our living inside a time-bound perspective, rather than in eternity. Now we incorporate that eternal perspective. Long and Short Time Horizons If our time horizon is very short, then our life is in a sense not a life at […]

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MoralityNow, the box, time horizon3 Comments

Morality and Time

AlbertAugust 13, 2017August 13, 2017

Let’s consider the subjective sense of time that we each have. I don’t mean the sense that time flies or “I can’t believe it’s already August,” or that kind of thing. I mean the way we think of our lives as a whole. We all know we’re going to die, and yet in our daily […]

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MoralityFifth Dimension, morality and time, time horizon1 Comment

Elasticity

AlbertMarch 1, 2017

Living Abundantly Much of our self-imposed misery, disappointment, fear, and anxiety results from an inability or unwillingness to think rightly about the future. The Bible speaks to living “abundantly.”  Could it be that the ability to think long-term, about this life but also the life to come, is the single best measure of living “abundantly?”  […]

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Nature of Godelasticity, living abundantly, time horizonLeave a comment

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