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Fighting Fair Builds Healthy Marriages

Fighting Fair Builds Healthy Marriages
Love may be blind, but Marriage is an eye opener! A classic one-liner but so true – Marriage can be tough!   Marriage is a wonderful medium for love to grow richer and deeper as it is tested in the realities of the day to day of life.  But in the day to day of…
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Hypocrites: Always room for one more!

Hypocrites: Always room for one more!
Is the Church full of hypocrites? I hear it often. It seems like an auto-response for many when describing the Church;  "the Church is full of hypocrites."  I usually end up smiling as I remember an old friend when faced with the same response. He would smile and warmly reply "Yes! And there is always…
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How to Resign from a Job with Grace

How to Resign from a Job with Grace
The average worker in North America will have an average of 7-10 different jobs in their lifetime.  This works out to an average adult changing jobs about every four years.   While some of these changes may be due to circumstances beyond our control, there will be those opportunities where you make a deliberate choice to…
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Why Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner Doesn’t Work

Why Hate the Sin and Love the Sinner Doesn’t Work
It surprises many to learn that the phrase hate the sin and love the sinner is not in the Bible. This idea seems to have originated with St. Augustine (c.424) in one of his letters when he used the phrase "Cum dilectione hominum et odio vitiorum" that translates as "with love for mankind and hatred…
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Legend of the Fire Maker

Legend of the Fire Maker
Once upon a time, in a far away land, a wise man made a discovery.  He discovered fire and with fire, he could be warm, cook his food and have light through the dark of night.  He had heard of a people across the mountains; the people who lived on the plains and he wondered…
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Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!

Bruised and Broken? God has a Plan for You!
Thornton Wilder's play, “The Angel that Troubled the Waters” is based on the story found in John 5:1- 5 with an interesting twist. The play tells the story of a doctor who visits the pool of Bethesda in hopes that he could be the first in the water when the angel appears and troubles the…
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The Grace to Endure the Crushing Things of Life

The Grace to Endure the Crushing Things of Life
Words like crushing, dying, despair, utter darkness are good words to describe walking through the valley of the Shadow of Death but are anemic when you have never experienced them, and quite honestly, I hope you never have to. But the reality is, some of us have, and for some of us this may be…
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The Least of These?

The Least of These?
Jesus tells a story in Matthews 25 of a King who calls a meeting of his subjects. He said to the group to the right of him, "I want to sincerely thank and commend you.  For I was sick, and you cared for me.  I was hungry and thirsty, and you fed me and gave…
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Speaking the Truth in Love

Speaking the Truth in Love
There is a comedian who has a bit where he describes some of the idiosyncrasies of living in the Southern United States. He laughs as he describes how people would say things like “That baby sure is ugly! Bless his little heart” or “Betsy sure looks fat in that dress. Bless her heart!”  He jokes…
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Oh Father – Our Right of Prayer?

Oh Father – Our Right of Prayer?
There was a bit of controversy in our small country town.  One of the public elementary school's staff and students have been starting each school day by reciting the Lord's Prayer - until the school administration received a letter from a mom describing herself as agnostic,  expressing concern that on two separate occasions, her sons returned home after…
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