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Continue reading →: Illegal Crossings and I BeamsWhy do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own…
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Continue reading →: Purposeful Living: Embracing “Long Obedience” DailyAs society becomes more shallow and superficial, a counter cultural Christian perspective and answer may be derived from atheist Friedrich Nietzsche. The Christ honoring life will tend to be one that is marked by “a long obedience in one direction.”
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Continue reading →: He Is Risen: Three Compelling Proofs of the Bodily Resurrection ChristThe evidence for the bodily resurrection of Jesus is not confined to faith alone — it is grounded in history: -an empty tomb that no opponent ever explained away, -hundreds of eyewitness accounts recorded within living memory of the events, -the stunning, inexplicable transformation of terrified disciples into martyrs who…
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Continue reading →: Who Are We If We Don’t Care About the Poor?Ultimately, addressing the economic challenges of city life will require not just individuals and families adapting to the new realities, but the federal, state and local executive plus legislative will to create and implement policy solutions that better align wages, benefits, and the real cost of living especially for the…
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Continue reading →: Waiting Well – Ruth & NaomiProvidentially, in the context of the book of Ruth, Naomi and Ruth, the dedicated daughter-in-law lead a masterclass in waiting well. “Those who wait on the LORD shall renew their strength.” — Isaiah 40:31
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Continue reading →: What’s Beyond Bitterness? -Lessons from Naomi & RuthThe LORD in the book of Ruth gives the context for at least 6 ways in which Naomi and Ruth demonstrated or benefitted from “waiting well.” Let’s look at 3 now and 3 more next time.
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Continue reading →: Winter’s Bucket List- God is SovereignI’m ready for God to fling all His bounty on me this spring season. How about you?
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Continue reading →: The Smell of Hard Work and Success: The Power of PerspectiveIn the story of Naomi and Ruth in the bible grief, loss, and displacement had collapsed Naomi’s view of reality down to what she had lost. Naomi could not see what was being given. Yet God was working in the background of her bitterness — in the timing of a…
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Continue reading →: Flipping the Life Script: The Power of ReversalGod has a set time and manner for your come back. That financial frustration, that confusion, that dry, difficult relationship, that thing that you can’t seem to get over or beyond, that career disappointment – none of these are too big for the One who specializes in turning mourning into…

