“What color are you?” “Huh? What do you mean?” my son responds. He looks down at the skin on his hand and then back up at me with a quizzical look on his face. “I don’t mean your skin color…I mean your personality,” I say, laughing. We had just finished eating dinner; my wife had
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The older I get, the more I find myself reading the labels on the back of food packaging. When I was younger and presuming invincibility, I would poke fun at those who used to do this. Now, here I am, looking down my nose, underneath my prescription glasses, trying to read all of the fine
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“Don’t judge me!”Have you ever noticed when a person is caught in a sin, they often respond this way? When on the receiving end of such an exclamation, you often find yourself with your hands in the stick-‘em-up position, saying something like, “Whoa, don’t kill the messenger!” A sinner’s conscience prompts a multitude of defenses
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Skeptics love to point out that man wrote the Bible. In many ways, they rest their caps and their arguments against true faith in Jesus Christ on this very supposition. Me? Well, I guess I’m a bit like the apostle Peter, the one who relished the fact that every last bit of his confidence, spanning
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Testimony– a: a solemn declaration usually made orally by a witness under oath in response to interrogation by a lawyer or authorized public official; b: firsthand authentication of a fact: evidence; c: an outward sign Synecdoche – a figure of speech by which a part is put for the whole (such as fifty sail for fifty
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If you believe that eternal life exists in the Lord God, and also in His saved children, and that Heaven exists (ref. John 1:4; 17:3), then you must ponder what it takes to partake in these things for all of eternity (ref. Matthew 25:46). I think it’s fair to say that this question is on the minds
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The world says that man is inherently good; therefore, it must be some external force that corrupts him, making him less than his true self. The Bible says that man is inherently bad, and the only remedy is from God. These are diametrically opposed systems of thinking, and one brilliant way in which Satan deceives
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”And every created thing which is in heaven and on the earth and under the earth and on the sea, and all things in them, I heard saying, ‘To Him who sits on the throne, and to the Lamb, be blessing and honor and glory and dominion forever and ever.’” — Revelation 5:13 By the
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“In an increasingly widely disseminated TED Talk titled ‘Everything You Think You Know About Addiction is Wrong,’ British journalist Johann Hari discusses the available research into the underlying causes of addiction and concludes, rather brilliantly, that the opposite of addiction is not sobriety, it’s connection. His statement echoes a theme that I and many 21st
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I think it’s easy sometimes to demonize entire groups of people as opposed to recognizing the individuality of each member in said groups. I suppose it’s less mental work in some ways, but it’s obviously a grave error. For example, in the Bible, given the multitude of conflicts Jesus and His apostles had with the