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Symbolism in Christianity
Many religious traditions throughout the world are highly dependent on symbolism, ceremony, and some, mysticism, as part of the...
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Sep 25, 20246 min read


God Has a Plan For You
If you’re listening closely enough you”ll hear it said from time to time that God has a plan for you. What is meant is that God has a...
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Sep 18, 20247 min read


If You Don’t Know, You Don’t Know.
I suppose everyone reading this has heard the term, “God thing,” at some point. “There’s no way to explain how he survived that accident....
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Sep 11, 20246 min read


In, Not Of
Youth Group makes clothes for Ghana. In Luke 11, and more famously in Matthew 6, Jesus offered a model prayer for his disciples to follow...
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Sep 4, 20247 min read


Replacing Don’ts with Dos
A criticism some people offer of Christianity is that it’s too negative. I think they’re due to study more. For one thing, if you’re...
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Aug 28, 20246 min read


The Problem with Pride
Yes, that’s my house. I built it myself (with a lot of help from my friends. (Some of them are still my friends.)) I take pride in it, a...
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Aug 22, 20246 min read


What Will Heaven Be Like?
If you were asked to write a paragraph describing Heaven, what would you write? What do most people think of when they think of Heaven?...
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Aug 14, 20245 min read


How Do You Know?
”Jesus loves me,” the little children sing (and adults should as well.) “Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me. Yes, Jesus loves me,”...
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Aug 7, 20246 min read


Opening Ceremonies
On Friday, July 26, the opening ceremonies of the 2024 Summer Olympics featured a perverted restaging of the “Last Supper” painting by...
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Jul 31, 20245 min read


Jesus Keep Me Near the Cross
(from Songs of Faith and Praise) Fanny J. Crosby, 1820 - 1915, wrote more than 8,500 hymns during her time on this earth. She became...
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Jul 24, 20246 min read


Love vs Fear
Why does a boy ask a girl to marry him? Why have people in war zones spent the night almost totally submerged in jungle rivers? Before...
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Jul 17, 20246 min read


A Choice You Don’t Have to Make
I want to ask you a question. Can you be tempted into being good? Can anybody be tempted into being good? Think about that and we’ll...
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Jul 10, 20248 min read


God Bless America
Missoula, Montana, from Mount Sentinel The song, “God Bless America,” was written by Irving Berlin at the close of WW1 and put away until...
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Jul 3, 20245 min read


Love, Lust, Hate
When God first brought the Israelites together as a nation He gave them the Ten Commandments in Exodus 20, rules of conduct and attitude...
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Jun 24, 20245 min read


Complementary Counterparts
We’ve discussed problems of atheistic concepts before. Let’s consider one of the very many things which make no sense without a guiding...
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Jun 17, 20244 min read


Being Subordinate
Chapters 23 and 24 of Joshua contain his farewell address to the nation of Israel. In that address Joshua recounts the history of Israel...
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Jun 10, 20246 min read


God Didn’t Have To
Trapper Peak, Bitterroot Range, Montana It seems (to me) that “in the beginning” God desired a created being with which to share Himself....
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Jun 3, 20244 min read


The Lord’s Name in Vain
Even a casual student of the Bible should realize that God is a serious being. He is definitely not the ogre that He is often depicted as...
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May 27, 20244 min read


The Least of These
Red Skelton (1913 - 1997), was an American comedian who dedicated his life to making people laugh with clean comedy. He had a regular TV...
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May 20, 20245 min read


Faith Without Works
Just this week I read the following on page 53 of the 2016 edition of the “rule book” of a major Christian religious organization; “God’s...
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May 13, 20246 min read
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