December 2008
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Malnourished Christianity
Today I read the last few chapters of the One Year Reading plan on youversion.com. Malachi 3 for those of you who are familiar with it is famous (and in some minds infamous) for being what is known as the tithing chapter in the Bible. Tithing is a command to give 1/10th of your income to the storehouse—the local church. It is the only command in the Bible that God asks us to test Him on by...
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A Christmas Carol
On December 19 in 1843 we saw the publication of Charles Dickens, “A Christmas Carol.” No other book or story (save the Bible) has been more enjoyed, criticized, referred to, or more frequently adapted to movies or other media. Some scholars have even claimed that in publishing A Christmas Carol Dickens single-handedly invented the modern form of the Christmas holiday in England and...