Sunday Morning Musings
This regular column begins today and will continue on Sundays as long as Dan Stewart from Cliff wants to provide them.
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East of Eden
How Far Have We Wandered?
Genesis 4 — Adam had known his wife Eve, and she conceived, gave birth to Cain, and said, "I have gotten a man with the help of the Lord." Then she gave birth again to his brother Abel.
And Abel was a keeper of flocks, but Cain was a tiller of the ground. Cain brought an offering to the Lord of the fruit of the ground. Abel also brought the firstborn of his flock and their fat portions. And the Lord had respect for Abel and his offering, but for Cain and his offering, He did not have respect. And Cain was angry, and his countenance fell.
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A Modern Dialogue Between Jesus and Young Scholars at a University
The first skeptical student steps up and asks, "If you're real, why don't you prove it? Why not write your name in the sky or something?"
Jesus answers, "You already trust the sky without seeing the One who holds it in place. You trust the air you breathe without knowing where it begins. Why demand more proof for me than for the things you stake your life on every day? Besides, if my name blazed across the heavens, you would call it a trick, or a glitch, or a hallucination shared by millions. And even if you believed for a moment, you would soon forget—as you did in the beginning—and return to skepticism born of pride. I will not coerce you. Love does not force belief. I only ask you to use the freedom I gave you to choose what is true."
Then skeptic number two asks, "But the world is full of suffering. If you're good, why don't you stop it?"
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The Cowboy's Dream
One night, after a long day riding fence, a cowboy fell asleep beside his dying campfire. And as he slept, he dreamed of riding across a vast desert under an iron-colored sky. The wind carried the smell of fire and brimstone.
In the distance, he thought he heard thunder, but it wasn't thunder—it was the pounding of hooves coming from a herd of ghost cattle stampeding across the sky, their horns glowing like embers in a furnace. Behind them thundered ghost riders—gaunt, relentless, with eyes fixed on the horizon. Their ropes swung like lightning, their horses snorted fire, and the cowboy felt the earth tremble beneath him.
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