Monthly Archives: March 2019

Jesus and the Psychology of Happiness

Posted on March 30, 2019 by salooper57

Popular psychology has been transitioning over the past couple of decades. It’s happier now or, at least, it’s talking about happiness more than it did. For generations, psychology was principally interested in pathology, in aberrant and self-defeating behaviors. Psychiatry has … Continue reading →

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Irrefutable Evidence of the Reign of Death

Posted on March 29, 2019 by salooper57

The Apostle Paul wrote: “. . . just as sin entered the world through one man [Adam], and death through sin, and in this way death came to all men, because all sinned – for before the law was given, … Continue reading →

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Wise Guy: The Two Kinds of Wisdom in James 3

Posted on March 27, 2019 by salooper57

http://lockwoodchurch.org/media (listening time: 25:24) Who is wise? Who’s got the answers? Who knows how to live the good life? Before you can answer the question “Who is wise?” you need to clarify which kind of wisdom you are talking about. … Continue reading →

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Get off the Bandwagon of Hate

Posted on March 23, 2019 by salooper57

Six days after the 9/11 attacks, in remarks made at the Islamic Center in Washington, D.C., President George W. Bush told his audience, “These acts of violence against innocents violate the fundamental tenets of the Islamic faith.” He went on … Continue reading →

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Tongues of Fire

Posted on March 21, 2019 by salooper57

James 3:1-12. (Listening time: under 24 minutes.)http://lockwoodchurch.org/media

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The Rebellion in the Garden

Posted on March 19, 2019 by salooper57

What happened in the garden was not simply wrong, it was rebellion. Continue reading →

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We Must Not Think God Is Our Servant

Posted on March 16, 2019 by salooper57

Jeeves, with his boundless knowledge and seemingly infinite reach, is more than a little like God. Perhaps Wodehouse realized this, for he once described him as “a godlike man in a bowler hat.” Continue reading →

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Dying of Loneliness: Faith Without Works

Posted on March 14, 2019 by salooper57

http://lockwoodchurch.org/media A sermon on James 2:14-26 (25 minutes).

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The Story’s Told That Adam Jumped (But I’m Thinking That He Fell)

Posted on March 12, 2019 by salooper57

In our world, we have beauty and cruelty, hand in hand; wisdom and insanity, side by side. We have the glory of Bach coming out of Weimar, and the barbarity of Hitler coming out of the Weimar Republic. There is … Continue reading →

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The Other Problem of Pain

Posted on March 9, 2019 by salooper57

C. S. Lewis’s book, The Problem of Pain, was published in 1940. In it, Lewis responds to an argument against the existence of God that goes something like this: An all-good God would not want his creatures to suffer; an … Continue reading →

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