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Pleasures Forevermore

“Two things I ask of you; deny them not to me before I die: Remove far from me falsehood and lying; give me neither poverty nor riches; feed me with the food that is needful for me, lest I be … Continue reading

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Faux Pearls

Maslow was wrong. Well, he was right before he was wrong. It is true enough that we all have a hierarchy of needs. Some things are more important than others. Trouble is, he didn’t know what the most important things … Continue reading

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A Future So Bright

Because we believe it is our due, we are confident that even the darkest clouds have silver linings. When someone dies in old age, we rejoice that he had a long and full life. When someone is taken suddenly, we … Continue reading

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Our Father

As a father and a grandfather I am, from time to time, faced with challenges. Children and grandchildren have inherited from me a condition that leads to those challenges- sin. For the myriad ways they are and can be blessings … Continue reading

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The Rest of the Story

Obedience is a rather narrow road. Disobedience, on the other hand, has a great, sweeping plain of options. Because we are like the Pharisees, we find it easy to convert the law of God into sundry sins of omission. We’re … Continue reading

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Check out Monday’s Study on Romans 5

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The Silence of the Lambs

The world, Paul tells us, knows what’s coming. He not only highlights the universal guilt of all men, but ironically defines that guilt as the denial of what we know. We know that there is a God, and that we … Continue reading

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You Think You’ve Got Problems

While I am not foolish enough to think that thinking wisely will solve all of our problems, I am wise enough to know it will solve this one- our problem of misunderstanding our problem. We are utterly filled with foolish … Continue reading

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Digging into Romans 5

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Dumb Phone Sunday

It is not all that uncommon for some blogger, podcaster or other user of social media to go through some kind of media fast, only to come back and report to us his experience. Here’s another. My “fast” was not, … Continue reading

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