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Things Are Not As They Seem
Since you’re reading this, it means you’re on the internet, which means you’re up-to-date on the latest headlines. Our senses are assaulted as fear and uncertainty rage from post to tweet. We roar but we’re quite helpless to control the bedlam. But wait… “Things are not as they seem. Evil, though widespread, is not winning. Faithfulness, though costly, is not futile. Affliction, though…
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Better Than UPS
We call them “Gifts of the Spirit”, and every follower of Jesus has at least one given to them by Him. But the gift He handed us isn’t for us. Read the tag—it has someone else’s name on it, and Jesus expects us to deliver it. The Apostle Paul said, “Having gifts that differ according to the grace given…
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Aslan is Not a Tame Lion
I love the fact that God didn’t ask us to figure Him out. We can’t. Even living eternally with Him, I doubt we ever could—and we might not even want to try. As analytical Westerners, we naturally task ourselves to explain things like how God came to be, how He made the universe, and what the end of the world will…
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You Won’t Find It Here
With so much to search in this vast non-world of the internet, there’s something we’ll never find because it’s just too big—too big for the internet, too big for all the brains of humanity, too big for everything, everywhere. Yet it’s the greatest search of all… The proper study of the Christian is the Godhead. The highest science, the loftiest speculation, the mightiest…
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Another Poem
One of my great discoveries in life was when I spent my day making life better for someone else, it was always a good day—and when I spent my day trying to make life better for me, I went to bed wondering if I’d really accomplished anything valuable at all. We were made for God, and it seems He…
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My Son Would Do That
What is righteousness? It’s when God sees what you did and says, “My Son would do that.” Of course, that’s impossible, so God works on us to make us like His Son, and then He even treats us like Him. We have an amazing family. Blessings! —j
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A Prayer for the Living
The world doesn’t need more Christianity. Really. It needs Holy men and Holy women who shine in the darkness because they are with Jesus and He is in them and it shows. They are alive and of another world ruled by an invincible King; they practice a heavenly culture and speak the language of eternity and salvation; and they are thankful—always…
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St. Bernard Was Not A Dog
Bernard of Clairvaux was sainted because he loved Jesus, but everyone who follows Jesus is a saint, too. How can you tell? They are completely taken by Him, they do what He says because they love Him and they are thankful—really thankful. Like St. Bernard… What language shall I borrow to thank You, dearest Friend, For this Thy dying sorrow, Thy pity…
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The Chief End of Man
A college professor once told a pompous student, “Young man, I suggest you plunge your finger into a bowl of water and remove it—the hole that remains will show you how significant you really are.” Our world is driven by the fleeting and superficial—people, ideas and things that pave the way to human insignificance, but it was never meant to…
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