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Are You Volunteering for Slavery?
Today and every day, many people are choosing slavery over freedom. It is a choice you don’t have to and shouldn’t want to make.
Distracted, Divided, Dependent
Someone wants you distracted. Someone wants you divided. Someone wants you dependent. You have a choice.
Heavy Hearts Abound
The world is full of strife and anger
Clashing spirits, sometimes danger
Doesn’t the Bible Say ‘Don’t Judge’?
To be judged is to be told you are at fault and that you are “wrong”. This is something no one enjoys.
The Church – a Hospital for Sinners?
The Church is God’s Place for the healing of the broken hearted, not a weekend performance.
A Guarantee for a Better Marriage
There is nothing you can do that will permanently check the box marked “good marriage”. Instead, there are things we can learn, that when practiced daily with intentionality, can keep our marriages on the right track over a lifetime.
What Happened to Lazarus?
What happened to Lazarus? He is the center figure (other than Jesus), in one of the most significant, well-known stories in the Bible. But what happened after he was brought back to life?
We Need and Have a Better Hope
Hope is an important word, with an important meaning behind it. When I was in counselor training, one of the worst problems you would ever find was a lack of hope. When people have lost hope, then it impacts their capability to deal with all their problems, no matter the severity. Hope allows us to come back from terrible tragedies. It allows sport’s teams to pull off incredible upsets. Hope can provide a path out of some very dark places.
No Community
This is not a post primarily about Covid, lockdowns and political decisions. It is a post about the impact of those decisions and others on a society. One definition of a society is “The totality of people regarded as forming a community of interdependent individuals.” There are a couple of key words in that definition,Continue reading “No Community”