On Saturday mornings I take one of the kids and go to the transfer station a few miles down the road, where we deal with our recycling and some of our trash. We sort it, drop it and then go get breakfast and worry no more about it. I’m not sure where it goes from […]
How do you give emphasis to something when you are writing? Online people write things in ALL CAPS to indicate they are being really serious. Sometimes we are not content to put one exclamation point at the end of a sentence so we put two or three. Others choose to use words like “awesome” or
When we read the Bible and become engaged in God’s story of redemption, we learn some poignant lessons about God and His work on the earth. Here is a list of some of those lessons. These lessons help us to follow the Lord by faith when we wonder if He is working, because we are
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Do you believe in the supernatural? A survey from 2004 showed that thirty-nine percent of those living in the UK consider themselves atheists or agnostics.(1) Yet a more recent poll found that, while many of those in Britain are abandoning Christianity, their interest and faith in spirituality hasn’t gone anywhere. Over half (fifty-five percent) of
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I have been a Christian long enough to know that none of my own ideas are very good. That is to say, if I know something really important, or if I say something that’s deep, I didn’t come up with it. My growth as a follower of Jesus Christ has been dependent on two things:
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The Bible is full of difficult teachings that are seen as unpalatable to the modern person. But even in Jesus’ day, people at times responded to his teaching unfavorably. Here’s a sampling: “this is a hard teaching, who can accept it?” (John 6:60). Or, “You have a demon!” (John 7:20). On multiple occasions, the audience
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