“We were buried therefore with him by baptism into death, in order that, just as Christ was raised from the dead by the glory of the Father, we too might walk in newness of life.…
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“For none of us lives to himself, and none of us dies to himself. For if we live, we live to the Lord, and if we die, we die to the Lord. So then, whether…
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Life is full of choices. This road sign I jogged past brought with it one aspect of the manly, chivalric life I need to remember. If life’s a journey, right now for me it’s a…
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This Christmas season I read Charles Dicken’s Christmas Carol to my kids for the first time. It’s been a fantastic experience for me (and it seems like for them, at least the older ones), and…
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The gospel. A word used so often it’s become part of our everyday English vocabulary. But how often do you think about what the word really means, or why the writers of the New Testament…
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Do you have the heart of a hero? Do you have the spirit of a superhero? My favorite superhero stories are the ones in which the protagonist has no supernatural ability, no bizarre biologic mutation.…
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Rain. It is often thought of as depressing. But did you know the Bible often talks of rain as a good thing, a sign of God’s mercy? Where you are when it’s raining can make…
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“When a man desires a thing too much, he at once becomes ill at ease.” Thomas Á Kempis[i] This simple line from one of the Middle Age’s greatest devotional writers rang recently like a clarion…
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“And he shall turn the heart of the fathers to the children, and the heart of the children to their fathers, lest I come and smite the earth with a curse.” –Malachi 4:6 Now that…
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It is easy to say we trust God. It’s a basic Christian statement and one we believe in theory. But when faced with day to day living it can be hard to live in practicality.…
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