Tag: Faithfulness
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Good Sense, Bad Sense, And No Sense At All
Not to oversimplify the topic, but I believe faith can be boiled down into two categories: (1) Faith that responds and (2) faith that doesn’t. There are surely other concepts of faith, but they all fall into one of these two categories. We will consider only one other, and it is an extension of faith…
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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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At What Fires Are You Mingling?
This text jumped out at me while I was pilfering through a stack of files on my computer. Now they arrested Him and led Him away, and brought Him to the house of the high priest; but Peter was following at a distance. After they kindled a fire in the middle of the courtyard and…
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The Death of the Snake King…
I recently saw a headline (not the one I used) that caught my eye (see news article here). There was a man in Malaysia known as the “Snake King” because of his death-defying stunts where he did performances with deadly cobras for the public. Mr. Ali Khan Samsuddin spent more than 25 years working with…
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A Good Brother’s Good Question
I was recently having a conversation with a good brother about life and faith. He has only been a Christian for a few years, and it seems that the subject of service is still daunting to him. Those who honestly approach the Book to learn and grow still struggle to figure things out. Perhaps, it…
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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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“Bur in Your Blanket”
The expression may not mean anything to you. It’s quite possible you have never heard it before, and have no idea what it refers to. Or perhaps you’ve heard it but do not know what it means. It is typically used for someone who is a constant source of annoyance. But the original meaning carries…
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Where’s Your Hope?
The question is not really about location, but foundation. So many today are fresh out of hope. They wonder about this earth confused, unsure, and unstable. The world around them is crushing them. The major issues are catastrophic—the minor ones are debilitating: the news is traumatic and even the weather sends them comatose. When everything…
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