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May 17, 2012	Another Helping of Sin Pie (Hosea Series)		I love pie. Cherry, apple, pecan, pumpkin… I’m not picky.  I don’t think I’ve yet met a pie I couldn’t eat too much of. My neighbor made me a pie this past week. I don’t remember what she called it,... [read more]
May 15, 2012	True Love: The Divine Romance (Hosea Series)		One of my favorite books is The Princess Bride. The movie is good, but not the same. The one-liners are classic. On the surface, it’s a standard fairy tale, and follows standard happily-ever-after format: Scene 1: Boy Meets Girl Scene... [read more]
May 9, 2012	Taming the Shrew – the Hesed of the Lord (Hosea Series)		In the movie 10 Things I Hate About You (a modern retelling of Shakespeare’s The Taming of the Shrew), Heath Ledger is a headstrong guy who successfully woos – or wears down, depending on your perspective – Julia Stiles, who... [read more]
April 28, 2012	The Prodigal Sons		In the awesome video from Sunday, we see what might be an all too familiar scene: a husband and wife fighting.  In this case, she walks out on him, rejecting her husband and choosing a “fun” life over the stability... [read more]
April 25, 2012	Hosea 2: The Restraining Love of God		My great-grandma Amalia was a hoot. She was a feisty old German woman who had raised three daughters on a farm in the Panhandle by herself during the Depression and the Dust Bowl after her husband ran off. Granny was... [read more]
April 21, 2012	Merciless Love: Hosea 1		I work with a lot of dentists, and in those projects, I’ve seen a lot of “before” pictures of really bad tooth problems that they’ve fixed. Black, crooked, chipped or even missing teeth. Teeth that look so rotten that they... [read more]
April 17, 2012	Hosea: a Fairy Tale of God’s Stubborn Love		Fairy Tales seem ingrained in us. We read them as children, and they form the structure for virtually every epic story mankind has ever told. A prince fights to rescue the princess from the dragon/tower/wicked stepmother, and they live happily... [read more]
March 14, 2012	Turning Traitor		In the movie “How to Train Your Dragon,” the hero – Hiccup – is in a tough spot. If you’re born into his town, you grow up to be a big, strong Viking who kills dragons. Hiccup is not big... [read more]
February 27, 2012	Go All In		On January 8, 1956, five missionaries were brutally murdered in a remote area of Ecuador by a primitive, isolated tribe who felt threatened by these newcomers.  All five had distinguished themselves in some way back home, and could have had... [read more]
February 2, 2012	It’s Not About the Benjamins		When I was in high school, a band called Big Tent Revival came out with a song called, “Two Sets of Joneses.” It told the story of two couples (both with the last name of “Jones”): Rothschild and Evelyn, and... [read more]