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19 mins read|07/25/14It was by listening closely to Dr. Rosenbladt's words and watching his quiet actions that one could learn many things about being a dad.
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5 mins read|06/04/14I’ve come to realize at the tender age of 47 that sometimes church doesn’t work.
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7 mins read|05/05/14The wine of communion is a gift from God and the blood of Christ we receive at the rail an inebriant that encourages and frees us.
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6 mins read|04/12/14I am lord of all I eat. I lord it over meat, potatoes, pecan pie. I make those foods serve my body, transforming them into me. But it is not so with the meal of Jesus.
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4 mins read|04/03/14In this particular church, all sins are forgiven, but some sins are more forgiven than others.
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9 mins read|03/27/14I hoped like mad they’d spit in my face and laugh me all the way out of town. I wouldn’t have even cared if a mob of them had beat me to death in a back alley. But heavens no, I couldn’t be that lucky.
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7 mins read|03/05/14Of all the words this woman ever spoke, these alone are chiseled forever into the stone of holy writ, and into the church’s memory. Mrs. Job becomes the patron saint of quick-tongued women.
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13 mins read|10/30/13I believe, however, that lurking behind every reason we don't forgive is one fundamental impulse: the desire, real or perceived, to control the offender.
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14 mins read|10/23/13O such is the crumbling fortress of the god of this world, but how it entices our flesh! For it looks like a house of candy to the Hansels and Gretels who wander through this world.
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11 mins read|03/10/13Not only does he give them a fourth chance; he risks the very life of his son in doing so. There lay three of his servants, with blackened eyes and broken bones, scarred by cuts and abrasions, and he imagines things will go better for his son?
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9 mins read|01/05/13People take off their public masks when around relatives. They let their darkness shine. That’s why Manuel spends his December 25 in the graveyard, talking to the dead.
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