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The Distracted Face
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The question: do you think? I do not ask, “What do you think?” But, “Do you think?” For thinking is a lost art in a reactionary digital world. Focus is hard to come by, for the internet giants have no reason to promote it. They need your clicks to get their cash. The more distracted we are, the more money they have. Your brain is a gift from God.
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The Greatest Gift
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Christmas is a time of giving, and it should be, for it was at the first Christmas a Son was given.
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The Good Life of Little
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Many people are chasing that good life, the one with the treasure and the fattened ox, the one with the cash and the finest meals. Well, Proverbs holds out a different kind of vision of the good life.
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For the Dry and Weary
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Have you ever felt dry and worn out by life? Has your energy and passion ever withered so much it is hard to go on? Have the waves of trials beaten repeatedly upon you? If so, you are in the company of the psalmist.
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7 Lessons From Philip's Adventure
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In the midst of a powerful outworking of God’s Spirit in Samaria, Philip was told to depart and go to Gaza. What are some lessons we can glean from this movement in Acts, this portion of Philip’s life?
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Hosea: A Living Parable
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God asked Hosea to do something hard. As a prophet, Hosea would serve as a living parable for a rebellious Israel. God told him to marry a woman who would be unfaithful. She would betray him in the most debased ways, choosing a life of prostitution over life with Hosea.
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Does My Parenting Style Teach Obedience?
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Does my parenting style teach obedience? Can I teach a version of obedience that is also freeing? A version where they know the boundaries, yet feel free operating within them? Or do I teach obedience that is void of relationship?
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Marriage Principles From Non-Marriage Verses, Part 2
The Spirit Transforms Us
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Christina and I are not the same people we were in 2002, the year we stood before God and witnesses and declared our covenant of love for one another. As age and life has ticked by, we have both matured. In a sense, because we were relatively young when we married, we have grown up together. But our personal growth is not due entirely to the natural flow of life. No, we have both experienced spiritual transformation at the hands of Jesus Christ. He has shaped and molded us over the years.
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How Not To Handle Temptation
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Temptation is all around us. Daily, we are bombarded with the pull of fleshly passions. Because of temptation, we must feed the Spirit.
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Unknown Yet Known
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Paul had a roller coaster relationship with the church in Corinth. They loved him. Then they hated him. They admired him. Then they belittled him. Like the ocean tide, the Corinthian believers were up and down in their estimation of the apostle.
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