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6 mins read|08/23/16The flower of youth, as lovely as it is, cannot withstand the hot winds of time. There is a beauty, however, that remains.
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11 mins read|08/12/16We want to know how God rules this world, how he is present in all things, how he exerts his control over the course of world events. We want to know why some get cancer and some don’t, why terrible things happen to the best of people, why volcanoes erupt and hurricanes strike and fires consume.
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13 mins read|08/03/16We shrink away from God’s godness and almightiness, and so shrink down our prayers. Perhaps it is a lack of faith. We don’t trust God to give what He himself has promised to give.
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10 mins read|06/05/16We're of little faith. Or rather, we have big faith, but it’s in something else. Our faith is in our ability to control situations, manipulate them to our advantage.
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12 mins read|05/24/16When Simon the Pharisee got his holier-than-thou panties in a wad over what this woman was doing, Jesus insulted him by pointing out how much a better host this prostitute was than he was.
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11 mins read|05/10/16The reason that anyone would choose a heaven without Jesus, or happiness without Jesus, or healing without Jesus, is because he doesn’t mean that much to them to begin with.
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11 mins read|03/29/16That is the way of our Lord, the way of grace. He doesn’t abandon Thomas to drown in a sea of doubt.
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2 mins read|12/28/15O bloody town of Bethlehem, How shrill we hear thee cry. Your mothers shriek while fathers weep The graveyard lullaby.
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10 mins read|12/13/15What every heresy does, in one way or another, is ungods God, unchristens Christ, uncrucifies the Crucified. It strikes through the good of Good News.
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10 mins read|12/09/15There is truly only one commandment and only one sin. That one commandment is “You shall have no other gods,” and that one sin is idolatry.
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12 mins read|11/29/15Dan reminded me—in his words, in his patient suffering, through his unwavering faith in Christ, by his confidence in his baptism—that Jesus Christ does not abandon his own. No matter where they are, no matter what they’re going through, He is there.
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10 mins read|11/05/15Our Father does not bid us to turn inward, but outward, to the Son who is himself our unending Sabbath rest.
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