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10 mins read|04/07/19“That can’t be right”, I thought to myself as I flipped back and forth between two verses in my Bible.
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13 mins read|05/29/18As I was reading Romans 7 today, I was reminded of a pivotal scene in one of my favorite movies, As Good As it Gets.
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17 mins read|04/09/18There is just something about the idea of not being ‘under Law’ that sets off all kinds of alarms in the minds of many Christians.
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9 mins read|10/12/17God created Israel to be the vessel into which he would place both his Law and his Son.
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14 mins read|06/13/17I recently began seeing a chiropractor for what turned out to be a compressed disc. He took routine x-rays to facilitate his diagnosis, and on the day he was to go over the results with me, I was placed in a conference room to wait for our consultation.
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9 mins read|05/25/17People have often tended, quite wrongly, to view me as saintly. I attribute that undeserved reputation to the fact I have always had a very strong sense of the kind of person I should be.
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9 mins read|12/07/16Have you ever grown despondent from trying so hard to stop behaving in certain destructive ways, but always failing?
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10 mins read|05/30/16Either one of those verses alone is scary; but both of them together are terrifying!
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8 mins read|11/30/15Have you ever read scripture and been caught by a crippling wave of guilt, shame and fear? Have you sat with your Bible open in front of you and thought, “Well, if this is the case, I might as well pack it in right now, because there’s no hope for me!”
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14 mins read|09/02/15In response to one of my recent posts on social media, a beloved agnostic friend of mine commented, in part, “What’s with all you religious folk feeling like you’re sinners?
