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Answering Critics
Should a person always answer his or her critics? It is our impulse. We might feel that silence implies vacillation, lack of courage, or unwillingness to engage. Perhaps, sometimes, it does. At other times, it merely indicates a feeling… Continue reading
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Keeping Up with IVA
Integrity, Vulnerability, and Authenticity - IVA Are you real? You know the answer, but the clincher is how people perceive you. Do you come across as real? If not, you are paying a high price because your credibility account is overdrawn… Continue reading
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Be a Builder
The wise woman builds her house, but with her own hands the foolish one tears hers down. – Proverbs 14:1 Are you a builder or a destroyer? Some of us are on life's demolition crew and others are on the… Continue reading
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One Thing I Have Asked
To ask, to seek, to dwell, to gaze, to inquire.Mix them up, stir them around, or take them in reverse.You could do them all at once.You could take them in order.It is a simple "ask" that ushers in a progression… Continue reading
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Seeking Savior
“For the Son of man is come to seek and to save that which was lost.” – Luke 19:10 This simple word from the Master answers the criticism of stale religionists that He was spending too much time with sinners.… Continue reading
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Through Many Dangers
“Are they ministers of Christ? (I speak as a fool) I am more; in labours more abundant, in stripes above measure, in prisons more frequent, in deaths oft… In journeyings often, in perils of waters, in perils of robbers, in… Continue reading
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Choose Life
“… I have set before you life and death, blessing and cursing; therefore, choose life that both thou and thy seed may live.” Deuteronomy 30:19 Whatever happened to the cross? To the Romans it was merely another two pieces of… Continue reading
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Are You Sick of Christians?
I get ticked off and harsh when I perceive people are ticked off and harsh and I judge judgmental people and I am just as human as the rest. If I am sick of anyone, I ought to be sick… Continue reading
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“That’s the Deal.”
The Pain Now is Part of the Happiness Then "The boy chose safety. The man chooses suffering." I was thumbing through "Shadowlands," a novel by Leonore Fleischer based on William Nicholson's stage play recounting the romance and tragedy of C.S.… Continue reading
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