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Scott Hoezee

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How about a Nice Game of Chess?

The premise of the 1983 film War Games is that a NORAD computer—that had been programmed to “play” a game called “Global Thermonuclear War”—goes rogue,

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That You Set into Place

We live in curious times.  On the one hand, a surprising percentage of American Christians expend a great deal of energy denying a huge swath

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Construals

Two weeks ago I talked about gratitude and how to get more of it into our lives.  Along the way I mentioned the theologian Robert

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The Grateful Heart

By the time this post appears on The Twelve I will be on day two of a week-long seminar with seventeen pastors.   I am teaming

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Masters of Chaos

When I studied the Book of Genesis in seminary, one of the first things my professor, Ray Van Leeuwen, pointed out was that cosmos is

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Praying

At the end of our Faculty Meetings, we go around the room to gather up prayer requests.  At the final meeting of the just-past school

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The Journey of Sergeant Pepper

My colleague Bob Keeley notes in this blog that he was barely a teenager when the landmark “Sergeant Pepper’s Lonely Hearts Club Band” album was

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The Veneer of Civilization

Those of us who are fans of the AMC cable show The Walking Dead know that although this series began with the obvious threat of

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