Category: Peanuts

>I don’t think I need to write about this…I can identify clearly, to my shame…perhaps you can, also?

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>Excuses are like elbows; everybody’s got a couple (a loose paraphrase of an old military saying…)

And man is without excuse (Romans 1.20), but Linus has a reason, not an excuse:

>Hmm…substitute “Christian” for “brother” in the comic…do we too often overload the answer to a genuine, sincere question? Too often older-in-the-faith Christians expect (demand?) so much more of new Christians than we did or do of ourselves…

>I don’t totally buy into the “treatment” Lucy promotes; but I do know that it is better to focus on other things and other people rather than dwell on our own discomforts…We do need to “examine ourselves” but introspection in and of itself can become a self-dug hole into condemnation rather than Spirit-conviction…

>It’s only been a while since the holiday we call Thanksgiving…prayerfully Snoopy’s situation isn’t common to us:

>Charlie’s dilemna in romance is too often our problem in reaching out to others for Jesus and the gospel – plain old fear. How to get over it? Nike. Just do it.

>This first appeared in October of 1963…I think I first saw it in the early eighties in “The Gospel According to Peanuts” (a book to be read with discretion)….but it is an all-time favorite of mine, with too much truth: