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14 mins read|01/22/15Scattered throughout all denominations are moms and dads whose greatest disappointment in life is that their children have seemingly abandoned the faith.
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12 mins read|09/04/14Focus on control and you’ll end up with nothing but confusion and frustration and disappointment. It’s not about who’s in control in this life but whose you are in this life.
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9 mins read|07/29/14The psalmist writes that our earthly lives last “seventy years, or eighty, if we have the strength.” As if proving the poet right, and showing the world that she did have that kind of strength, Alvena fought on to her eightieth year.
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9 mins read|05/23/14I was angry at heaven, at earth, and everything in between, for my life and my love and my hopes had all gone wrong, terribly, irreversibly, wrong.
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4 mins read|04/02/14I say I was dead before Jesus called me, but actually, I was worse off than that. Imagine a corpse who is at war with life, who is an enemy of the Life-giver. That was me.
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4 mins read|03/14/14We love because we find in the beloved something that is lovable. We see, we know, and then we love. Or, at least, we promise to love.
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8 mins read|03/11/14Though I had studied four prior years at that institution, the one course I had with him shaped my pastoral care more than any other. Ken Korby was this pastor’s name, and when I grew up, I wanted to be just like him.
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9 mins read|11/26/13Eat, yes, but season your turkey with the ashes of repentance as it preaches just how little your faith is, just how little you trust God, just how little you believe the Father is good to you.
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4 mins read|10/25/13The reason is much simpler than that: to learn to pray, you must first die. The language of prayer is taught in the school of death.
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12 mins read|10/03/13Why would God reject from Cain what he later accepted from and mandated of his people? So as far as the material itself, neither Cain’s nor Abel’s offering was superior.
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5 mins read|08/14/13When the angel told Mary she had become a mother, she replied simply, ''Let it be to me according to your word.'' Therein is a grateful acknowledgment that the Creator had formed life in her womb.
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7 mins read|06/10/13She against whom I preached, in her unexpected response actually “preached” to me three truths I have never forgotten.
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