Nehemiah tells us the joy of the Lord is our strength… Why, exactly, is the joy of the Lord our strength? This answer is because of the nature of joy;…
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A new baby named Knox has come to live among my family, and his grinning eyes have taught me a valuable lesson. As I lay exhausted but sleepless after a…
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I was awake at 12:30 in the morning a few days ago, my mind bursting with memories from my past, many of which feel like seeing the biography of another…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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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…
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As knights of Christ we must not only fight evil and injustice in the world around us, but also the evil inside ourselves. Repentance is a major way this happens.…
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Christ taught us in the Lord’s Prayer to pray for forgiveness of our sins. A legitimate question arises, when thinking about Christian repentance. If Jesus died for all of my sins, why…
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