If you’ve ever felt like an outcast, be encouraged. You’re not alone. You’ve never been alone, even when it felt most like it. One of the great tricks the devil plays is convincing you to abandon hope in this world, rejected as a pariah. Don’t buy the lie. In every group there exits an axis […]
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For over a decade, the Spirit’s been teaching my congregation the value of “seeing it all as truth,” as I like to say, which is a summary phrase derived from Paul’s words in the Book of Ephesians. But when anything is exposed by the light, it becomes visible, for anything that becomes visible is light. —
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People seem to be preoccupied with so-called “equal pay” in this country. I seriously wonder why that is. Not because I don’t understand such a simple concept, but rather that I wonder if people really ought to be making such comparisons at all, given that the very concept of a “wage” is subjective, from man’s
Treat others the same way you want them to treat you. If you love those who love you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners love those who love them. If you do good to those who do good to you, what credit is that to you? For even sinners do the same.
This story takes place in a two-dimensional world. There once was a square. The square was lonely all by itself, so God gave it company, a circle. He told the square to love and care for the circle, even when it wasn’t easy, and the circle to respect the square’s expression of love, even when
Following the completion of my stint in the U.S. Air Force, I was tasked with, as they say, “working my way through college”. Until being hired into a formal engineering internship, I worked primarily as a waiter at the breakfast diner my mom owned and operated. I also worked nights at a Chinese restaurant not
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Over the past thirty-five years, hundreds of thousands of hungry visitors have sampled some of the best clam chowder in the world at the annual Great Chowder Cook-off in Newport, Rhode Island. If you’re from northeastern United States, you know how esteemed a good bowl of clam chowder is to the distinguishing palette. We pride ourselves on
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History repeats itself. This isn’t merely an assertion made by historians. I think most of us will agree there is truth in that statement, based on our own experimentation. Nowhere is this more magnified than in the enduring Word of God. Let me show you what I mean before you take my word for it.
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Therefore speak to them and tell them, “Thus says the Lord GOD, ‘Any man of the house of Israel who sets up his idols in his heart, puts right before his face the stumbling block of his iniquity, and then comes to the prophet, I the LORD will be brought to give him an answer in
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We are all born sinners. If you don’t believe that, then you don’t believe the Bible and you may spurn the remainder of this blog. If, however, you do believe the Bible is the infallible, inspired Word of God, then listen up! This blog may require you to concentrate more than normal. Why? I propose
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