Hope

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Thoughts?

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The edge of glory

Confession: There’s a Lady Gaga song I haven’t been able to get out of my head lately. I read about the song first before hearing it. Mother Monster apparently shared that it was inspired by the death of grandfather and was about looking back at one’s life in the final moments – on the edge [...]

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In the bread line

By German artist Fritz Eichenberg Looking for God? Search the unlikely places.

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I wish we’d all been ready

There’s a popular passage in the Scriptures that has done more than it’s share of spawning fear, conversion, cults, and even an entire Christian media industry. As it was in the days of Noah, so it will be at the coming of the Son of Man. For in the days before the flood, people were [...]

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The Bucket List

What’s on your bucket list? ie. Things you need to do before you kick the bucket and leave this earth; Things you dream of achieving; The person you have visions of becoming; Hopes you have before this life is over. Here’s the harder question. Are you any closer to realizing these dreams today than you [...]

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Can I get a witness? (why people twitter)

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There’s a lady I know that shares about her hardships and broken marriage to strangers everywhere she goes. Her son tells me that it’s so people know she existed. She wants people to know that she was here. Not that she was so great or so miserable, but that someone else knew pieces of her [...]

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Beauty & brokenness meet

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There is this odd scene near the end of the Gospel of Mark. There’s an innocent man nailed upon a wooden cross.  Jesus hangs in excruciating pain and while gasping for air he utters one final desperate cry of divine abandonment. And it’s at this moment, that a roman centurion who has been looking upon [...]

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Why the city can kill you

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Continuing the last few posts on “God’s bias for the city”, “why cities matter” and “why Toronto matters“; much of what makes cities great is also what makes cities dark and depressing. Cities amplify the best, but also the very worst, of humanity. City centers are fueled by individual self-interest.  Everybody goes to the city [...]

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