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Waiting with Ants an Advent Reflection by Jim Fisher
Today’s Advent reflection is written by Jim Fisher. Jim Fish enjoys reading and listening to stories. Even his profile pictures are intended to inspire conversation and invite you inside a story. (So...
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10. Breaking Bad The gradual descent into darkness of high-school teacher turned meth...
View ArticleO Little Town of Bethlehem
Everybody knows O Little Town of Bethlehem, of course. At least – everybody knows verse 1. Past that, you might need to reach for a hymnal or songbook. I enjoy reading the lesser known lyrics to some...
View ArticlePorn Makes Me Want to Get Plastic Surgery
There is an illusion we would all love to live up to. The illusion is we (guys, especially) want someone with a perfect body. This may mean slightly different things for different people, but...
View ArticleAnswering Skeptics: 4 Simple Strategies
o you have to believe in miracles in order to be a Christian? Can you be a follower of Jesus without believing that he literally rose from the dead? As the cultural influence of Christianity continues...
View ArticleLess Is More During The Holidays
Traditions are really important in my family. We always went to pick out our Christmas tree at a nearby farm, which are all over the place in Oregon. Rain or shine (usually rain) we would tromp around...
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Lessons Learned on Day 3,335 Tim Challies: I found myself thinking back 3,335 days and realized that maybe I have been slow to adapt to the ways the site has changed over the years. 3,335 days ago I...
View ArticleThe difficulty of Christmas
I was standing in line at Wal Mart, checking out with a few snacks that my wife and I were taking to our staff Christmas party. We were both pretty excited to celebrate a great year with the staff at...
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Free Christmas Music from Folk Angel!
Folk Angel is offering free Christmas music downloads to Compassion staff and supporters. Downloads are available through December 21, 2012.My Account l Sponsor a Child l Help Babies and Moms l Crisis...
View ArticleBook Review: Grace by Max Lucado
Book Review: Grace by Max Lucado Of course this book was written in the author’s usual easy-to-read-and-understand conversational and sometimes humorous writing style. With a topic as important and as...
View ArticleWhat Does Your Church Produce
Recently I did a post titled “New Measurement For Growth”. In that post I suggested you look at the following factors to determine the success of your systems within your church. Does your system...
View ArticleBloom where you're planted!
An ancient legend tells of a king who walked into his garden one day to find almost everything withered and dying. After speaking to an oak near the gate, the king learned that he was troubled because...
View Articleis it enough?
Sophonie, she scratches words on peach-colored concrete with a sliver of yellow chalk. She points to them and then to herself. “God. Me. Father. Mother.” I brim and pull her close. “Yes. God. He’s your...
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The Holy Spirit is the Operating System, Not an App
(CEB) I Cor 2: When I came to you, brothers and sisters, I didn’t come preaching God’s secrets to you like I was an expert in speech or wisdom. 2 I had made up my mind not to think about anything while...
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The Five Stages of Forgiveness in the Workplace
It’s not until you’ve been royally screwed over by someone at work that you realize how impossible it is to forgive. As good Christians, we believe it is our duty to rush headlong into forgiveness the...
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I’m giving you a whole pile of books for Christmas!
One of the things I’m most grateful for about this blog is the opportunity to share great books with you—and this Christmas, I have the privilege of giving some of you a ridiculous pile of great books!...
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Without the Heavenly Father
Without the Almighty Father – His grace and, yes, His direct intervention – we cannot live. We find ourselves in a world growing darker by the minute, but we were not made for darkness. We were made...
View ArticleThe Slaughter of the Innocents
Only the language of the Bible has an ability to give us the words to speak in times when words would otherwise fail us
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Prayer for the New Israel
“Have mercy on us, O God of all, and behold us; show us the light of Your mercies. Send Your fear upon the nations that have not sought after You: that they may know that there is no God beside You;...
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"He's On Earth and Mercy Miles"
That’s how our grandson sings his favorite Christmas song. Well, kids do say the darnedest things. Our grandson has been singing the songs of the season that he’s learning in his pre-school. Happily,...
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