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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|02/24/14I think the chief reason that a faction within me welcomes the disintegration of the American ethos is this: it makes me feel so much better about myself. The smut makes me quite smug.
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11 mins read|02/19/14Why, given all the things we wish God had told us, but didn’t, does he “waste our time” by stating the patently obvious? Was there, in Moses’ day, an outbreak of violence against the disabled?
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13 mins read|01/27/14It shows the extent to which an environment of iniquity can seep into the souls of believers, transforming them from the inside out, so that even when they “flee to the mountains,” like Lot and his girls, they take Sodom with them.
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8 mins read|01/02/14If I had hated him even while a child, in his late teens I grew to loathe him as the very antithesis of the man I wanted to be.
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7 mins read|12/31/13“Let’s face it,” my mom once told me, while delivering a lecture on making the right moral decisions in high school, “sinning is fun.”
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6 mins read|12/19/13But when I let my mind go there, in truth all I’m doing is this: bellying up to the bar of sentimentality to drink my fill of falsehoods that leave me intoxicated with feelings of saintly superiority.
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9 mins read|11/26/13Eat, yes, but season your turkey with the ashes of repentance as it preaches just how little your faith is, just how little you trust God, just how little you believe the Father is good to you.
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9 mins read|11/22/13There is no whitewashing of evil within the biblical family. The sheer fact that it is recorded, that of all the events in these people’s lives, these were chosen to be chiseled into the stone of the church’s remembrance, tells us something.
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15 mins read|10/22/13Like the patriarch, Jacob, who after his wedding night, awoke to the wrong wife in his bed, I too one day opened my eyes to find that the Rachel with whom I had fallen in love, for whom I'd labored long years, was not the one beside me as the sun rose.
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8 mins read|10/16/13What is most remarkable about this tale is not how clever it is, but that the original storyteller was just as greedy as the three fictional young men were.
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12 mins read|09/18/13Yes, He knows all—not only the sins you remember and are ashamed of, but also those you have forgotten and even those you never knew you committed.
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