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Matthew 22:34-40 King James Version (KJV)   34 But when the Pharisees had heard that he had put the Sadducees to silence, they were gathered together. 35 Then one of them, which was a lawyer, asked him a question, tempting him, and saying, 36 Master, which is the great commandment in the law? 37 Jesus said unto him, Thou shalt love the Lord thy God with all thy heart, and with all thy soul, and with all thy mind. 38 This is the first and great commandment. 39 And the second is like unto it, Thou shalt love thy neighbour as thyself. 40 On these two commandments hang all the law and the prophets. Today I tossed 99% of the paper that had accrued during my decade long doctoral program. The papers were research studies, my term papers, manuals, teacher hand-outs, and the like. In the last two years and change since earning the Ph.D. I had developed an aversion to all of that paper in terms of looking at it. The papers loomed like some teetering tenement that needed to be

 No, this is not going to be a comic rip-off of Calvin and Hobbes. Christians are great at mimicry. Find out where art and culture are going and then create a sanitized and safe version of it four years later. Harmless but not really helpful. Actually, harmful. Perhaps in the worst way because it is no longer REAL. Denatured, un-natural, weird. Grape juice rather than wine.... Quite odd for a people that used to turn the world upside down. Christian rap artists. Most goofy. With little skill. Really? Might have pew cred...not street. Rap needs to be confrontational, prophetic, if it is going to fit the genre. For good or bad, it has to cut. But, cut it must. Yet, I digress or regress. Or something. Finishing up on a year of devotionals from John Calvin. Quite necessary and in my face. Pure deduction and derivative from the Bible. Doctrinal. Calvin is mostly indisputable. Since he based his writings on what the Bible taught, hard to contest. Skeletal and structural. But, now