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April 04, 2008
By: Patrick
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So who is the most important person in the Bible? Well, besides Him, of course — and his Son and his Spirit.
It’s a curious question really, and maybe there’s not an answer. There are definitely people highlighted more than others, though that’s not necessarily a measure of importance. Saul takes up a good chunk of chapters, but in the long run he seems to be more of an oops than important. David steps in and his branch takes over the whole story.
I don’t really even mean honored. Isaiah, for instance, resonates to our day as being a great prophet. But, in the story he’s more of an observer and color commentator. He’s vital as a narrator, but not as a player.
How about Noah? He’s important. If he didn’t have that faith which builds boats then the story suggests humanity would have been wiped out.
David and Noah are important, for the Old Testament parts. As is Moses. We can’t forget Moses. Or Abraham. Abraham is a rather vital guy for all sorts of reasons. Maybe we could throw in Paul and Peter and John for the New Testament — both because they were major players and because if not for these three we wouldn’t really have much of a New Testament. Thank God for the writers, eh?
These are people we know. So they seem especially important, and for good reasons. But I’m thinking there are others. I’m constantly struck by the character actors in the text. You know, the men and women who show up, say a line or two, and then disappear.
Take this lady, for instance:
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April 02, 2008
By: Marty
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I get a pretty steady flow of emails from “Christians” who rant and rave about Oprah and her new age teaching shows. I don’t disagree that Oprah teaches and brings into the mainstream a lot of New Age thinking and I also recognize that she does a ton of very good things as well.
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November 03, 2007
By: Cathi-Lyn Dyck, Managing Editor
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Dana Hanley is author of the popular family issues blog, Principled Discovery. We’d like to thank her for contributing to the content of Humble O.
On June 6, 2007, the Special Rapporteur on Freedom of Religion and Belief held a meeting of religious leaders at the House of Lords in the UK. The purpose was to look at the challenges presented to various faiths in the implementation of Article 18 of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights which states,
Everyone has the right to freedom of thought, conscience and religion; this right includes freedom to change his religion or belief, and freedom, either alone or in community with others and in public or private, to manifest his religion or belief in teaching, practice, worship and observance.
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September 19, 2007
By: Marty
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Sustainable living encompasses a lot of complex issues. But is it so complex to actually improve your own individual way of living?
No. If it were, I’d be too lazy to do it.
I would venture to say that most of North America has some kind of sustainable infrastructure in place these days. Urbanites needn’t fear their lack of available dirt—in fact, you may want to have your soil tested for chemical residues and heavy metals before you try growing anything in it. You just don’t know.
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August 23, 2007
By: Marty
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Tonight we had a great conversation with Two people I really admire who are presenting God 2.0 to the masses through MySpace and also a new web community called Shoutlife.com.
The conversation took place between myself, Marty Daniels, T. Pylus who is the moderator of “Jesus Lovin’ Church of MySpace”, one of the largest religious groups on MySpace.com and Paul McLellan, President and Founder of ShoutLife.com, an online community that caters to the Christian lifestyle.
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We also give one example of how members of Shoutlife are coming together to show the hands and feet of Christ to another person who is recovering from tragedy.
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