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Will I Be Alone at the Lunch Table? (Thank You, Tosca Lee)
Will I be alone at the lunch table? Remember wondering that? As the photos of children returning to school or jumping on the bus for the first time flit across my Facebook feed, the memories flood back. I loved school. Learning was a joyful and effortless pursuit for me. Books were my haven, writing my …[ read more ]
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Can We Heal a Soul with Our Applause?
Can we be healed by majority rule? If enough people accept me, say that they love me, applaud for me, and welcome me into their hearts, will that fill the empty space inside and make me whole? Is life and identity truly best informed by a scene from Peter Pan where the audience saves Tinkerbelle …[ read more ]
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God Just Can’t Leave Well Enough Alone
The apostle Paul stretched out, waterlogged, on an unfamiliar beach blinking in the white sun surrounded by pieces of ship and others not fortunate enough to open their eyes again on this shore. Peter caught by Paul, red-faced and ashamed, facing correction for spurning the Gentile Christians around the Jewish Christians who might judge him, facing something worse now – the …[ read more ]
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He is the Cure
Sickness, disease, and death. These are the enemy. From strep throat to brain tumors, from depression to psychotic breaks from acedia to demonic possession, we are fragile beings and when we’re plagued, we long for one thing – healing. Right out of the ministry bullpen, Jesus came out healing. He took on every ill like …[ read more ]
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Why Don’t More Miracles Happen?
Why don’t we see more miracles? Is that something you wonder about? Have you ever thought that if God just performed more miracles then people would believe in Him? Have you ever prayed for a specific miracle in the hopes it would influence someone you love to see the truth of God’s existence? The reasoning …[ read more ]