God
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Weed Killer
No matter sin gets redefined, it can’t unring the bell. Ignore it, offset it with good or call it something else, the roots of guilt remain like an impossibly stubborn weed. What can we do? Start here… “Father in heaven! Hold not our sins up against us but hold us up against our sins, so that the thought of Thee when it wakens in our…
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Food and Happiness
I like food (one look at me and you know) and I like happiness. Apparently, so did C.S. Lewis… “God designed the human machine to run on Himself. He Himself is the fuel our spirits were designed to burn, or the food our spirits were designed to feed on. There is no other. That is…
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Stronger than Coffee
Oruel, a fictional pagan in C.S. Lewis’ book, Till We Have Faces, lashed out at the gods for their fickleness… “I say the gods deal very un-rightly with us. For they will neither…go away and leave us to live our own short days to ourselves, nor will they show themselves openly and tell us what they would have…
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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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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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The View From Here…
How we view God has a huge impact on how we treat others. A wise friend once observed, “We are created in God’s image. Whenever you meet a man, it is God asking you, “How will you treat Me?” I have yet to recover from this statement. I am glad. —j
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In the Headlines: What Have Astronomers Really Discovered?
I love the universe. I was an astronomy minor at university, and like a bug to light I’m drawn to all the latest star-science. And as you can guess, this is a dilemma. I’m a follower of Jesus—I love cosmology and believe in the most grandiose terms that God made the universe to declare His…
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The Furnaces of Auschwitz: Where Was God?
(…and, yes, God rescued the Hebrew youths…)
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From Jerusalem: “God’s Poets”
God has poets—like you—to tell of His wonders. Have a look…!
Jay McCarl 