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[serialposts]With Thanksgiving right around the corner, it got me wondering if I’m a pretty ungrateful person. The reason I need to pose that question is because when I reflect on my prayer life, am I the kind of person who spends a fair amount of time counting my...
Is church a choice? Certainly, from the perspective of the Bible attending church is not a choice. There are no Biblical examples of Christians in the New Testament period who were believers that did not attend church. However, many Christians today seem to treat...
Verses like these use to trouble me: "Consider it pure joy, my brothers, whenever you face trials of many kinds," -- James 1:2 (NIV) "In this you greatly rejoice, though now for a little while you may have had to suffer grief in all kinds of trials." -- 1 Peter 1:6...
When my grandson Ayden was four or so, we sat together in the living room. Looking at a picture on our mantel of him as a toddler with his father, aunt, and uncle, he said, “Daddy died in an accident, didn’t he?” “Yes,” I told him. “What kind of accident?” “A...
It's the last teaching of Jesus that's recorded in the Gospel of Matthew. Then...
On the one hand the church does not need any defending. The church is the...
[serialposts] "History is the witness that testifies to the passing of time;...
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