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He Gets Us and the Double-Edged Sword
This morning as I read God’s Word and prayed, Jesus called me out on some heart issues. I’ve been at this following-Jesus life for decades. My younger years were pockmarked with struggles against immorality, impurity, godly lifestyle choices and other engagements with sins typical of young adults (especially coming up in the 60’s, 70’s, and …[ read more ]
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Beware the Bloggers and Other Real Dangers
I’m pretty smart. Not Albert Einstein smart or anything, but still, I’ve got game. I laugh when watching the machinations of Harold Hill in the old musical, The Music Man, especially his song “Ya Got Trouble.” I roll my eyes at the quaint gullibility of the people of River City, imagining I’d never fall as hard as they for a grifter’s schemes. But the …[ read more ]
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How to Survive Our Country This Week
What do we do with someone else’s pain? Especially when it leads them to direct their anger towards us. Trauma and open wounds can lead people to toss the baby out with the bathwater, but what if that baby came to save? What if we represent that baby? Days before another election and it feels …[ read more ]