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What Athol Wrote...: The Opposite of Art - Excerpt From Chapter 14
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The Opposite of Art - Excerpt From Chapter 14. Friday, October 28, 2011. As he had beneath the Sistine ceiling, Ridler paced the sidewalk. I'll show them," he muttered, dropping to his knees and opening his backpack. "I'll show them.". Observed in breathless silence. It covered half a block along the sidewalk. It climbed forty feet up the wall. It was of course his grandest effort, superior to anything that. Click here to buy a copy of The Opposite of Art. Posted byAthol Dickson at 5:35 PM. What a wonder...
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What Athol Wrote...: Love Wins . . . Unless You Are Rob Bell
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Love Wins . . . Unless You Are Rob Bell. Monday, March 7, 2011. Rob Bell is at it again. He has never shied away from controversy, and apparently his new book,. With the book not yet even released, already such stalwart evangelicals as Albert Mohler and John Piper are calling it heretical. An executive with a Christian publishing company, Justin Taylor, was apparently an early voice in the outrage against what Rob Bell. Surely that sweater was some publicist's decision. How is it made possible? As part o...
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What Athol Wrote...: February 2011
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Friday, February 4, 2011. To teach is to learn. I led a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer. And the Proverbs last night, and gleaned many inspiring insights from the friends I was supposed to be teaching, but for me the most intriguing moment came when we discussed these two strange facts:. 1 The Lord’s Prayer is meant to be prayed by a community of believers. 2 There is no such community mentioned in the Proverbs. Point number one seems clear when we notice the plural pronouns Jesus used: “. Solomon. I...
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What Athol Wrote...: LOVE WINS - A Review
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LOVE WINS - A Review. Friday, May 27, 2011. I finally got down. To Rob Bell’s book in my reading list, and I finished it this week. The first thing you notice about Love Wins. Is it’s not written for pastors, elders, or Bible teachers; it’s written for that guy sitting next to you in traffic, the one who hardly ever thinks about religion. Parts of the book are arranged on the page like poetry, one short incomplete sentence stacked over another, and sometimes each line is. While some may object to this as...
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What Athol Wrote...: River Rising - Deleted Scene
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River Rising - Deleted Scene. Tuesday, May 17, 2011. While looking for something else. This morning, I came across this scene, which got cut from River Rising. Early in the editing process. In honor of the poor folks in the parishes around Baton Rouge and New Orleans today who are once again suffering from a flood, I thought I'd publish it here, as a reminder that miracles do happen, and "love . . . always hopes, always perseveres.". How would you get the first tiny flame to catch and hold? 8221; he asked.
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What Athol Wrote...: May 2011
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LOVE WINS - A Review. Friday, May 27, 2011. I finally got down. To Rob Bell’s book in my reading list, and I finished it this week. The first thing you notice about Love Wins. Is it’s not written for pastors, elders, or Bible teachers; it’s written for that guy sitting next to you in traffic, the one who hardly ever thinks about religion. Parts of the book are arranged on the page like poetry, one short incomplete sentence stacked over another, and sometimes each line is. While some may object to this as...
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What Athol Wrote...: March 2010
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Monday, March 29, 2010. Jesus didn't pick His metaphors lightly. Jesus is the Word. After all, so every word he spoke was chosen with complete precision. He could have picked any symbol in the universe, yet he said “ turn the other cheek. Clearly He intended us to think in terms of being willing to allow another slap. Does that mean He wants us to be slapped? Of course not. But Jesus does want us to remain within arm’s length—slapping distance—of each other. As Dale Cramer wrote in his beautiful novel,.
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What Athol Wrote...: On Getting Lungs
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Friday, February 4, 2011. To teach is to learn. I led a discussion on the Lord’s Prayer. And the Proverbs last night, and gleaned many inspiring insights from the friends I was supposed to be teaching, but for me the most intriguing moment came when we discussed these two strange facts:. 1 The Lord’s Prayer is meant to be prayed by a community of believers. 2 There is no such community mentioned in the Proverbs. Point number one seems clear when we notice the plural pronouns Jesus used: “. Solomon. I...
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What Athol Wrote...: January 2010
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Sunday, January 17, 2010. They say a blog entry should be short,. But what can you do when a man like Pat Robertson causes such a mess? Some things take a while to clean up. Hopefully you’ll bear with me. If you somehow missed it, you can read the text of Pat’s comments and see the video here. Well, no actually, what Pat Robertson said is not Biblical. On the contrary, it’s heretical. Or Ananias and his wife. The Bible does indeed teach us God has sometimes supernaturally entered history to physically pu...
