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“Love or Lust?” Identifying the Role of Physical Attraction in Healthy Relationships
Read more: “Love or Lust?” Identifying the Role of Physical Attraction in Healthy RelationshipsSo, sexual attraction is a powerful force. If you are like me, you grew up in the church being told this, and that as a result, sexual lust was to be avoided like the plague and feared as dangerous as an inescapable labyrinth. And there are many who can testify to the powerful vice-grip that…
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Know Your Blogroll (Pt. 2)
Read more: Know Your Blogroll (Pt. 2)Welcome to part 2 of a look at the blogs that make up our blogroll at the bottom of this site. You can check out part 1 here. (The Two Cities has not received any financial considerations from the authors of these blogs, though donations are always accepted). The objective here is simply to point…
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Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?
Read more: Women Be Silent in Church! …Uhm, Did Paul Actually Write 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36?What I want to discuss here is controversial. Additionally, what I want to address is not novel. Here is the thought I’d like to ‘think aloud,’ so to speak, in the provocative world of the blogosphere: Is 1 Corinthians 14:33b-36 original? I should say up front that my focus is not on Complementarianism vs. Egalitarianism per…
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Don’t Miss the Boat! : A Geologist’s Take on the Historicity of Noah’s Ark (Guest Post)
Read more: Don’t Miss the Boat! : A Geologist’s Take on the Historicity of Noah’s Ark (Guest Post)The story of Noah and his ark is one that will never lose its ability to captivate young minds. When I was a child, I regularly reenacted the scene in our bathtub with plastic figures (unbeknownst to my parents, who were paying the water bill) and shared the story with my friends. But then something…
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The Agape Restaurant (Guest Post)
Read more: The Agape Restaurant (Guest Post)What’s So Great about the Church? Opinions about the nature or the need of the church abound. You may have heard someone say that the church is only one generation away from extinction. I suppose what is meant is that in a generation, it is possible for the church or a denomination to abandon Christ…
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Thorns and Roses (Guest Post)
Read more: Thorns and Roses (Guest Post)I have always found the spiritual life intimidating at best. How do I ascend to those vast heights of knowing God when I live, not exactly in the Valley of the Shadow, but at least on the Plain of the Ordinary? I am often rendered immobile in my spiritual walk by a haunting complex which…
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Perceiving Productivity
Read more: Perceiving Productivity“What is the meaning of life?” The age old question, if asked of myself, or many a believer, will likely result in a prompt answer along the lines of “the Gospel,” “the worship of God,” or “to glorify God and to enjoy Him forever.” But “What is the purpose of today?” is a question that…
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Celebrating the Patron Saint of Corned Beef and Cabbage
Read more: Celebrating the Patron Saint of Corned Beef and CabbageThe image to the left is an artist’s rendering of what Saint Patrick may have looked like. At least that’s what it would seem many people today think. Like any good capitalist society, America has reduced St. Patrick’s Day to it’s most commercially friendly form. Not unlike Christmas, the actual meaning of the holiday is…
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Kony 2012
Read more: Kony 2012There is a town in Northern Uganda named Gulu. To get there from Kampala—Uganda’s capital—our bus traveled about 200 km, cutting through lush tropical jungles and eventually emerging into the dryer terrain surrounding Gulu. After nearly two weeks in Kampala, I thought I knew a lot about Uganda (a very arrogant assumption to begin with),…
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Hip Hop: It’s not good or bad, it’s how you use it (Guest Post)
Read more: Hip Hop: It’s not good or bad, it’s how you use it (Guest Post)What if I told you that you could saturate your mind with profound truths about the glory of God and the sufficiency and infallibility of the Bible through music? What if I told you that it was hip hop music? Would your embers of interest be further kindled if I told you that words and…