Technology constantly requires us to get smarter. A single remote control operates our TV, the DVR, the lights, and the ceiling fan. We maintain friendships on Facebook, and we have computer screens ...
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The heat of summer draws us to the ocean just as the pressures of life draw us unto God. In the same way that we are refreshed at the BEACH, so are we refreshed when we spend time with ...
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What is faith? Is it the lack of doubt?
After her death, Mother Teresa’s diaries were published. In them she expressed her doubt that God existed. Yet, no one can deny the good she did in his ...
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What can desperation bring us to do? Our recent ancestors cured coughs with the slimy essence of snails. Icepicks were inserted through eye sockets into people’s brains, hoping to calm the confused ...
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We’ve all played that childhood game, Hide and Seek. We count out our numbers, and when we open our eyes and look around, there is no one to be ...
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The snooze button on an alarm clock is much more than five extra minutes of sleep. That little brown or beige or white button is in reality a second chance; it’s our opportunity to postpone the ...
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A hobo found an old oil lamp by the side of the railroad tracks. Picking it up, he pictured it lighting his way on a deep summer’s night past the stones and roots that lined the trails near the ...
Read more: The Terrible and Awesome Day of the Lord
We’ve all had to wait for something. The clerk scans the groceries tediously slowly; our line at the drive-thru sits motionless while the ones on either side zip along; the delivery that ...
God’s Word tells us we are to be a people set apart. What does that mean? Are we to look different? Act differently? Live in a gated enclave? Perhaps it is something else, ...
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A plastic FRISBEE is an amazing toy. It is no more than a simple disk, but in the right hands, it can perform incredible feats of ...
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It is the question of nature versus nurture. Do our genetics make us who we are, or is it the world around us that creates the person we must be?
Do we even have a choice in the matter? Can we take ...
