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12 mins read|08/16/16Although I was too young to have mastered the skill of lying, I also knew that I couldn’t tell this woman the truth.
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9 mins read|07/22/16He lavishly pours out His rest in the waters of Baptism, in the spoken words of absolution from the pastor’s lips, in the preaching of the cross and resurrection, in the consumption of heavenly cuisine from the table at which He is host and meal.
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7 mins read|02/08/16What is really good for the soul is not so much confession as absolution. If confession is us telling the truth about ourselves to God, then absolution is God telling us a truer truth about ourselves.
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11 mins read|01/08/16I know now that to “forgive yourself” is not only impossible; it is foolish, dangerous, and futile. It is the vain attempt of a soul plagued by guilt to seek relief in the very last place he should be looking: in himself.
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10 mins read|11/25/15What if, while we were admitting all these serious infractions of the divine law, our pastor simply yawned?
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14 mins read|11/17/15What makes this story remarkable is that this man, along with others hanged that day, was among the most hated men in human history. He was guilty of atrocities so horrific only words forged in hell could adequately describe them.
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6 mins read|04/22/15When I’ve dipped my brush in the midnight black of lust or greed and smeared those sable sins all over the walls of my life, he’s come along with a bucket of paint and covered over that black with a white so bright it blinds the eyes.
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11 mins read|02/27/15When I was a kid, I roamed the alleys and nearby fields with a pocket full of pebbles and a slingshot in hand. My grandfather had carved me the slingshot from the fork of a mesquite tree, native to our New Mexico soil.
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7 mins read|11/06/14Yet as we mourn, but unlike those who have no hope, so also we repent, but unlike those who have no absolution. For we though we weep, there is a hand that dries all tears.
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9 mins read|09/19/14When I revisit in my mind the very long list of stupid, mean, selfish things I’ve done, every one of them began with me saying something I shouldn’t have.
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10 mins read|08/24/14That all being said, come to think of it, I’ve never gone 24 seconds without sinning.
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10 mins read|07/24/14We like to define ourselves, and to have others see us and talk about us, based upon our accomplishments.
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