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9 mins read|04/11/16Years ago a young woman approached her pastor with a request. It wasn’t a strange request. She simply asked if he would perform her wedding ceremony.
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9 mins read|01/24/16When you see a cross, you see the smile of your Father. He’s not mad at you. He’s overjoyed that you’re his daughter.
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8 mins read|01/23/16As with so many things, regret can begin as something natural, even beneficial, as you struggle to recover from a wound in your past. But over time, regret can devolve from a sadness to a sickness.
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11 mins read|07/30/15Rather than praying a lie by pretending all is well, this psalm places upon our lips a truthful plea. A godly complaint. These are God’s words, given as gifts to you, by which you can speak back to him.
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15 mins read|06/12/15Job’s friend Zophar had it up to here! He was done hearing Job defend himself in the midst of his suffering. Surely, Job must have done SOMETHING to bring all this calamity upon himself.
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9 mins read|05/15/15For the less we tell these stories of sin, the more it seems we are ashamed of the Gospel, for it is the power of God for the salvation of bad people.
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8 mins read|09/22/14Wouldn’t it be great if there were something that could de-shame us?
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12 mins read|09/09/14Being thrown in the pit was but one of the many smoking guns that the prosecutor could bring forth as evidence.
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12 mins read|06/27/14Every year, when this day rolls around, I turn over the stones of remembrance that litter my mind, to see what lurks beneath.
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9 mins read|05/28/14For it is His law I have broken, His office in which I have failed, His people against whom I have sinned. All is from Him, so all I have taken, I have taken from Him. All others against whom I have sinned, I have sinned because they are of Him.
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8 mins read|04/22/14The thing is, not only is fixing our past impossible; who’s to say we wouldn’t repeat the same mistakes? In fact, who’s to say we wouldn’t make matters even worse?
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8 mins read|07/11/13On that day the mourners were shocked to discover that behind the veneer of her bright smile lurked a fathomless darkness, whose depths she made manifest only when she despaired of life in this world.
