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 Running Up the White Flag: Surrender as the Way to Follow Jesus
 by Nils von Kalm Text copyright © 2016 Nils von Kalm All Rights Reserved ( Note from Rowland: this looks good: check it out on http://amzn.to/1VVG93R } “Scriptures about dying to self, finding one’s life by losing it, being crucified with Christ, and living only for Christ make it clear that realizing true fulfillment depends […]
There is no them, only us
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com
The Tao Of the Christ: Notes for a healthy way to live…
A Guide to Healthy Living (by a Facebook friend Evan Hadkins) Come to me, everyone who toils and has been burdened, and I will rest you. Pick up my yoke [and put it] onto yourselves! because humble I am and lowly in [my] heart! and you will find rest in your souls [or being]. For […]
What I learned about love at 38,000 feet
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com
His Eye is on the Sparrow
Birds are so fragile and vulnerable. These amazing photos captured a drama with two of these little creatures. Kudos to the photographer. The newspapers that carried these photos sold out in every country. A female bluebird was hit by a car as she swooped low across the road, and the condition was soon fatal.
Why I’m giving up my Christian identity
by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com I’ve been a Christian for 30 years. People know me as a Christian. Most of my friends are Christian. For a long time, being Christian has been my very identity. And that is a problem. I am known by many people for being good at theology. I am good at […]
Divorce liturgy
The Grieving – Rowland As we remember the wonder of Christ’s love, we know that we are humble and fallible human beings. When we grieve our failures, Christ is beside us in that moment and gives us pardon and strength.            Silent reflection and confession Loving God, when a marriage has […]
The Imitation Game: review
The redemptive oddity of Alan Turing by Nils von Kalm http://nilsvonkalm.com “Sometimes it is the people no one imagines anything of who do the things no one can imagine.†And so – as this tagline of this brilliant movie describes – it was with Alan Turing, the man who was abnormal, who was different, who […]
Crabby Old Lady
This is special, and has been floating around the Internet for a while… When an old woman died in the geriatric ward of a nursing home in Moosomin, Saskatchewan, it was believed that she had nothing left of any value. Later, when the nurses were going through her meager possessions, they found this poem. Its […]
Defining a healthy religion
Faith: Christianity is not about putting yourself first Date February 22, 2015 Barney Zwartz ‘To a Christian, Scientology may be distorted and dangerous, but it is certainly a religion.’ Obscenity may be hard to define, said a United States Supreme Court judge decades ago, “but I know it when I see it.” Religion, too, is […]
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