Tag: Bible
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Father’s Rules
The Ten Commandments are generally treated as confining rules and nothing else. Yet humanity likes rules, we just don’t like to admit we like rules. We love guidelines and structure. No parent feels unloving or unkind because they make a rule about not playing on the road. Rules matter. The Rule-Maker matters. The first commandment…
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What Poetry Does
Poetry can make points that nothing else can. Through poetry, the poet can say what can’t be said otherwise, what would be deemed improper, or even too emotional. There is power in the poet’s pen… This is true of the Psalms. The Psalter is full of the tear-filled eyes of the grateful and the tear-stained…
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Pondering Ephesians 3
For this reason I, Paul, the prisoner of Christ Jesus for you Gentiles—if indeed you have heard of the dispensation of the grace of God which was given to me for you, how that by revelation He made known to me the mystery (as I have briefly written already, by which, when you read, you…
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Tests of True Christianity
In our culture, it has become popular to include everyone no matter their particular religious convictions. We welcome the idea that says, “You believe what you want to believe and I’ll believe what I want to believe and we can work and worship together anyway…” John would have much to say about such misguided inclusiveness. …
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Goldilocks and the Terribly Cold Arctic Blast of 2024
As I worked from home during the particularly cold Martin Luther King Jr. Day, I reflected on the mindset of the children playing in the yard. They didn’t care that it was cold. They simply knew it was time to play. They gladly ventured into the frozen tundra of the southeast Texas wasteland (if that’s…
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Solomon’s Valentine’s Day Advice
Valentine’s Day is here. Men, I hope you came prepared. Do you need help figuring out just what to say and how to say it? We can take a page out of Solomon’s book. The Song of Solomon was crafted by the wisdom of Solomon and inspired by God. Think about some of those rich…
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