... sign-readers. Every time you watch a stock report you are “reading the signs.” We all hit the malls on “Black Friday,” websites on “Cyber Monday,” and drive to Big Box stores on “super special sales” days during the holidays ... a friend who asserted “Jesus never talked to a prostitute.” When Shane protested that Jesus spent a lot of time talking to prostitutes and other undesirables, his friend came back and said, “Listen, Shane, Jesus never talked to a prostitute because he didn’t see ...
... 20 contains the final speech by Zophar, and it is apparent that he is resolutely fixed in his position. Zophar views life in black-and-white terms as he presents an extreme form of retribution theology. Looking only at the negative side of the equation, Zophar ... but they can be defeated through good choices. God will bring justice, either during earthly life or after death. Literature: Shane, by Jack Schaefer. In the old Western movies, the standard plotline was that the good guys (usually wearing white ...
... -down for those who didn’t make the cut? The messianic vision Jesus sketched out for his hometown audience wasn’t black and white. It wasn’t about good or bad, faithful or fallen, whole or broken, free or slave. The message Jesus ... wholeness. In death we find eternal life. There is a daytime children’s tv show called “The Upside Down Show” that features Dave and Shane of The Umbilical Brothers. But the real star of the show is “The Remote,” a device that when you point it at something turns ...
