Time and Chance

A blog by Justin N. Poythress, Pastor in Boise, Idaho

Resolve to make resolutions

Abstaining from resolutions is itself a plan. It’s a plan for status quo, which, given the nature of our world, is an unrealistic one.
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Your life is like the dawn

Even if clouds and rain cover your life, and you can’t see the sun, it’s there, and it’s only rising higher, never lower.
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Wisdom is like a sherpa

You must know and confess that you need direction from somewhere else – that left to your own resources, you actually won’t travel down…
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Truth by Consensus

By tethering absolute truth to the foresail of consensus, we have not thereby matured beyond the chaos of relativism. Rather, we are resigning ourselves…
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Not all equity is created equal

Surely no one imagines that equity is some sort of nightmarish carbon copied cul-de-sac, where everyone lives in the same type of house, wears…
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Believe the victim…or not?

David and Goliath. Field of Dreams. Star Wars. Rocky. The Sandlot. The local mom and pop store. Underdog stories never get old. We can't…
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Consumer Church

Despite our temptation to draw broad stroke, short-cut evaluations of a church’s faithfulness to Christ based on its forms of worship (music, liturgy, ministries),…
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