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Sin

While I was at Starbucks tonight with some teens, we ended up talking a bit about God. Something a bit odd since we usually just talk about life, but eventually discussions on life do turn to God.  We went all around in the discussion, from free will to incest and landed on sin. You know… is it a sin to have incest, is it a sin to be homosexual. What this led to was my own thought about sin. I think Jesus made sin incredibly easy to understand, and immensely harder to follow. Jesus came and said that there are only two commandments you should follow (the old rules can kind of be thrown away). You should Love the Lord your God with all your heart, mind and soul. The second commandment is that you should love your neighbor as yourself. Seems easy, right? It’s one of the great things from Christianity, while there is a lot of gray area, there’s also a lot of clarity. All I have to do is love god with everything I have. To do that I recognize the love I have for myself and give ...

Flickr Art

While I was perusing Flickr for photos on a small town for a previous post I came across this photo by Valerie Walsh ( valgalart on Flickr). Poking around her photostream there is some pretty neat stuff there. Like these: I definitely recommend checking them out and her Web site . Peace, +Tom