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17 mins read|04/15/20In the end, my only hope is that Jesus is always the initiator of mercy. He pursues me, even when I am unfaithful.
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12 mins read|12/05/18At this time of year a lot of emphasis is placed on being good. Elves on Shelves everywhere are watching our behavior and snitching to Santa, who is making up his all important list of those who have been naughty and those who have been nice.
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16 mins read|07/17/18I don’t know if you’re like me or not, but ideas can kick around in my head in a big jumble for awhile and then, all of a sudden, something random makes all of the pieces come together.
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17 mins read|04/09/18There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.
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11 mins read|01/24/18Growing up in church I did not often hear the word “grace” uttered unless it was accompanied by the word “cheap” and said in a disapproving tone with a disdainful look.
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10 mins read|12/18/17Her name meant “Rebel” or “Rebellion”. In a culture where your name was thought to reveal your whole character, either in a prophetic sense or as it was known and manifested, it was an interesting choice.
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10 mins read|08/08/17I walk in the local mall for exercise several times a week. I purposely avoid weekends and hours when the mall is likely to be crowded because, while I am not a racewalker, I do like to keep up a steady pace as opposed to stopping, starting and inching and this is difficult to achieve even when there are few people around.
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9 mins read|05/25/17People have often tended, quite wrongly, to view me as saintly. I attribute that undeserved reputation to the fact I have always had a very strong sense of the kind of person I should be.
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10 mins read|05/02/16“We humans are an evil, untrustworthy bunch.” I said to a friend recently, by way of explanation/cold comfort, after he had been cut to the core by fellow Christians who were uncomfortable with his vulnerability.
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9 mins read|03/07/16To whatever extent we follow God’s perfect commands we will benefit from following them.
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13 mins read|02/24/16Don’t get me wrong, I always read the comments on my own posts, but otherwise I try to avoid them like the plague.
