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The Boy in the Striped Pajamas

December 7, 2008

Shmuel is the name of the boy in the striped pajamas. He is an eight year old Jewish boy in a Nazi concentration camp. Bruno, the eight-year old son of the camp commandant meets Shmuel across the electric barbed wire fence. The film, based upon the book by John Boyne, uses this powerful story to [...]

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Chapter 2: From House Churches to Holy Cathedrals

April 13, 2008

From House Churches to Holy Cathedrals
As already stated in earlier posts, the early church believed that Jesus was the very presence of God and that the body of Christ (the church) constitutes his temple.
The authors of Pagan Christianity? point out that Jesus made some radical statements about the Temple in Jerusalem that angered the Jews [...]

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Chapter 2: Temples, Priests, and Sacrifices

April 13, 2008

Temples, Priests, and Sacrifices
Continuing in Chapter 2 of Pagan Christianity? authors Frank Viola and George Barna point out that the Old Testament Hebrews had a faith experience centered around the Temple, the priesthood and the sacrifice. But Jesus fulfilled all three of these by becoming the “Temple” made without hands, the final high priest who [...]

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The Calf Path – A metaphor for the church?

March 8, 2008

I am quoting from Pagan Christianity? – “In this book, we sometimes refer to “the crooked path” that led the institutional church to its current form. This poem, written more than a century ago, served as the inspiration for that metaphor.”
The Calf Path
A poem by Sam Walter Foss
One day through the primeval wood
A calf walked [...]

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