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It is all too often the practice among religious folk to try to throw a lasso around God in an effort to make the wildness and wideness of the divine contained just enough to make God somehow comprehensible by our finite minds. The idea of a lasso around God makes...
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Amos 7:7-8 “This is what he showed me: behold, the Lord was standing beside a wall built with a plumb line, with a plumb line in his hand. 8And the Lord said to me, “Amos, what do you see?” And I said, “A plumb line.”” We kick off the weekend every Friday night with...
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Last week, I wrote about a little situation I had with a toxic relationship. Then through discussion and this week’s episode, I learned that my situation has a title: systemic evil. I’m not sure if it was Rev. Alexander, Dr. Elnes (drink) or the DWB honorary Dr....
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“Then the LORD said, ‘See, I am setting a plumb line in the midst of my people Israel; I (the LORD) will never again pass them by…I (the LORD) will rise against the house of Jeroboam'” Amos 7. 8-9 What does it mean to be a person of “good...
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I. The Plumb Line Our focus this week in Amos (Amos 7:7-13) concerns the use of a particular tool that isn’t commonly used these days: a plumb line. When we were discussing the passage in the Darkwood Brew planning team meeting this week, someone asked if a plumb...