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A batch of the best highlights from what Todd's read, .

the six Engaging Questions: 1. Did I do my best to set clear goals? 2. Did I do my best to make progress toward my goals? 3. Did I do my best to find meaning? 4. Did I do my best to be happy? 5. Did I do my best to build positive relationships? 6. Did I do my best to be fully engaged?

Triggers

Marshall Goldsmith, Mark Reiter

Across my many complicated years and battles with the Bible, I have learned that understanding what Jesus meant is how you defy the herd mentality of the legalists and the deconstructionists. The Bible is not to be strip-mined for rules by obsessive legalists, nor is it to be dismissed as a mystic fairy tale by progressive deconstructionists, its bones plucked for decontextualized self-help spirituality.

Death to Deconstruction

Joshua S. Porter

Summarizing, the intellectual response to evil are all those abstract theological debates about why God permits evil to exist. The moral response to evil is how we should refuse to be reconciled to evil and should struggle against it in the world. Finally, the pastoral response to evil is how we come alongside those who are suffering or who are victims of evil.

On Evil: Part 1, Staying in the Lanes

experimentaltheology.blogspot.com

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