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Shut Up, Already! Enough! Silence!
One of my closest friends was filling in as guest preacher one Sunday morning. I love my friend’s teaching but he doesn’t have the most animated speaking style. That day, one of the young moms trying to teach her five-year-old how to worship, decided to keep him with her throughout the service. About twenty-five minutes …[ read more ]
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Shhh! Be Vewy, Vewy, Qwiet!
Silence. There is precious little of it in our lives. Some of us crave it in small doses but most of us fear it. Silence makes us uncomfortable. It exposes our insecurities. It reveals our inability to tolerate the solitude of our own thoughts. A Minnesota laboratory’s anechoic chamber holds the Guinness Book of World Records …[ read more ]