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Category Archives: popular culture
ASPIRIN advice for living in a heart attack culture
We live in a heart attack society. Our culture is consumed with concepts, communications, cravings, and compulsions that continually attack our heart, conspiring to capture and control our conscience. We are surrounded by heart-damaging words, images, thoughts, and feelings. To protect our heart … Continue reading
Posted in acrostic, alarms, aspirin regimin, conscience, daily aspirin, happiness, hope, media, optimism, popular culture, positive thinking, proverbs, self-control
Tagged advice, aspirin, guard your heart, heart attack, heart health, mental health, quotes
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Guilty Pleasures?
Is the phrase “guilty pleasures” an oxymoron? Here are some thoughts about guilt: To do wrong and feel entitled to have no guilt is like burning your hand and feeling entitled to have no pain. Guilt and pain are danger … Continue reading
Posted in Bible, condemnation, conscience, consequences, everyone who sins is a slave, feelings, freedom, It is not the healthy who need a doctor, Lord have mercy, oxymoron, popular culture, Quotes, repentance, sinners
Tagged denial, forgiveness, guilt, guilty pleasures, pain, psychology, recovery
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Conformed to the culture or transformed by Christ?
In our falsifying world there are many popular ideas that are deceptive, destructive, or depressive. Be careful what you take in! “Someone once said that if you don’t control your perception, you’ll live the rest of your life at the … Continue reading
Posted in be transformed by the renewing of your mind, Let the redeemed of the Lord, Matthew 18:20, organic church, perception, Phil Cooke, popular culture, Psalm 107:2, Quotations, Romans 12, Salvation Army, shout it from the housetops, support group, the stones will cry out, two or three in My name
Tagged brainwashing, Christianity, don't be conformed, Nashville, peer pressure, quotes
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Realty TV / Reality Church . . .
Reality church? We have reality TV that features ordinary people. So, why not reality church, where everyday people show and tell why God has done? When church is scripted, the freedom to flow in the Spirit is restricted to the … Continue reading
Posted in 1 Corinthians 14:26, Andy Chamberlain, C. Wess Daniels, Constance M. Cherry, experiential worship, Fuller Seminary, Music City, Nashville, new kind of church, New Testament, open church, open mike, open sharing, order of worship, participation, participation in church, participatory culture, participatory sermons, passivity, pastor, popular culture, quotation, quote, Quotes, religious innovation, Ryan Bolger, Ryan Flanigan, Salvation Army, Salvation Army church, Salvation Army Corps, television, TV, TV network, William Willimon, worship, worship center, worship gathering
Tagged Christianity, church, culture, quotations, reality TV, religion
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A Good God? A Good Government?
People sometimes ask: “How can a good God judge and punish people? That’s like asking: “How can a good country have law enforcement, judges, and prisons?” George Scott Railton, an early leader of The Salvation Army, wrote: “A soul not … Continue reading
Posted in demons, destructive actions, devil, devils, evil, evil entities, evil spirits, juddgment, judge, judges, judging, judgment, judgments, justice, law enforcement, popular culture, popular opinion, prisons, punishment, Quotations, quote, Quotes
Tagged George Scott Railton, God is good, Is God good?, politics, quotations, The Salvation Army
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What You “Like” Says What Kind Of Person You Are
“May the words of my mouth and the meditation of my heart” and the things I like on Facebook “be acceptable in Your sight, O Lord.”