Author: John Paul
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HOW STUDENTS WIN COLLEGE WRESTLING MATCHES
Wrestling with New Narratives As I set forth on a career of public speaking to students in Christian high schools and college student groups, one set of assumptions I must verify is about what unsettles them. Then I must adjust my talks to speak to those struggles. There they are, in a sheltered religious education… Read more
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GOD’S VICEROYS ON EARTH
Not a Cigarette or Bad Habit What is a viceroy? I don’t mean a cigarette from the 1930s. What kind of person is a viceroy? Let’s break down the word. By vice, I don’t mean a habit of rebellion against God’s ways: prostitution, drugs, eating too much, or drunkenness. I’m not talking about any reason to call… Read more
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SALVATION IS OF THE JEWS
“Salvation is of the Jews.” Rabbi Yeshua (Salvation) ben Yoseph of the Jewish town of Nazareth led his rag-tag gang of apprentices (and a few women) – not the long way around the despised country of Samaria to Capernaum – but straight north from Jerusalem. They stopped at the well outside of Shechem. The rabbi… Read more