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it impossible for me to comprehend how a Christian can kill a non-Christian who is thereby prevented from turning to Christ, just as it is also beyond me how any Christian can kill another Christian at the orders of state military leaders.
A Farewell to Mars
Brian Zahnd
Takeaway: There is not yet a reliable way for us to block the craving for sugar. For now, our best option is to try all of the tricks we can to dampen our craving. My recommendation is to resort to a whole fruit when the urge for sugar calls you.
Nature Wants Us to Be Fat
Richard Johnson and David Perlmutter
What Darley and Batson’s study with hurried seminarians tells us is that most of us are Jesus hobbyists. We pursue our hobbies when we have free and spare time. And that’s how we treat Jesus. We’ll welcome people like the Good Samaritan when we have the time. We get around to Jesus after all the other important stuff on our To Do list has been checked off. We follow Jesus if we’re available, which means following Jesus has become a hobby.
Stranger God
Richard Beck
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