In this passage, Peter calls us to love our unseen Savior with joyful rejoicing. He assumes because of our love we will choose joy. Let’s look deeper at the responses we should have to Christ…
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Psalm 127 is a beautiful psalm… But do I believe it? It’s easy to read and agree with, but not as easy to live every day. What happens when I find myself incredibly irritated and…
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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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Well, today is a day of not working. I don’t just mean that I have the day off, which is fantastic, but the TV isn’t working right, the car isn’t working right, the mini-split isn’t…
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I’ve become increasingly aware of an alarming trend of what would best be described as a disdainful and rude attitude toward others in settings where disagreement arises. This is something I see in both my…
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This is a poem I wrote many years ago. Enjoy! — Fulfilling Love O love of all loves, so elusive and spry, My heart longs for that which I cannot espy. A deep hollow…
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Flesh. Meat. Carne. It is a thing we can touch. A thing we can observe. It is a miracle of creation – an almost unfathomably intricate dance of molecules forming proteins, and proteins forming myocytes,…
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The following is a transcript of a live interview I recently had with the Little Dude in My Head on the show “Stumbling Around the Neighborhood in the Obscenely Wee Dark Hours of the Morning…
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There is nothing in all creation as beautiful as a person. There is nothing in all creation as important as a human being. Do you believe that? God does. He preached it at the opening…
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The context of Luke 21 is somewhat dry. We tend to focus on the much-debated passage of Jesus foretelling a coming day of judgment[1] or the (admittedly moralistic) point that dissipation, drunkenness, and all their…
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