Category Archives: A Thousand Words

How to tell a story

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Wishful Thinking

Be careful what you wish for. Wishes say a lot about you. Better to pray. Prayer lets the Lord, God have a say.

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Grace, not Law, the brake specialist

Jn 6:6 But now we are discharged from the law, dead to that which held us captive, so that we are slaves not under the old written code but in the new life of the Spirit. Much better on the whole … Continue reading

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Elephants, witness and testimony…Piraro theology illustrated

1 Thessalonians 2: 10You are witnesses, and God also… Isn’t God the only witness of import when it comes to a truth-elephant in the room?  When something is made known to you that no one else witnesses, knows or can … Continue reading

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Just made me smile…

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Come to me…first and always

Ok…in the Doctor’s place, imagine Jesus anyway you imagine him and the patient as you with all your brokenness.   This is just what I picture when I hear Jesus say, “Come to me and I will refresh you.”  Healing is … Continue reading

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Piraro’s comics just make me smile.

Piraro's comics just make me smile. Continue reading

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…”it depends on what the definition of is is….”

Intro to Theology, Piraro-style. Nuanced, literal translations just don’t give breathing room to the Holy Spirit to speak and let the Word do the work it was written to do.

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Take His WORD at His WORD

That’s what Jesus is saying in the final parable (Mt 7:22-28) of the Sermon on the Mount – which began, mind you, two chapters before and with the Beatitudes.  Take me – Jesus – son of our Creator, Abba Father, … Continue reading

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Bliss…or lack therefore of…

Dan Piraro wraps another secular big idea..this time in breakfast food. No scriptural foundation for the phrase itself, but people of faith will no doubt see the irony, if not theology, in yet another Piraro strip.

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