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“All we wanted to do in the eyes of God was to be man and wife in a church that we thought we felt loved. What was wrong with that?” — Charles Wilson of Mississippi. “So in Christ Jesus you are all children of God through faith, for all of you who were baptized into…
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I used to enjoy going to movies. But now whenever I venture into a theater I’ll be looking for the exits and closely watching every single person who comes inside. I used to worry about people looking at their cell phones or talking in the seats behind me. I used to worry about crying babies.…
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“I pray that you, being rooted and established in love, may have power, together with all the saints, to grasp how wide and long and high and deep is the love of Christ, and to know this love that surpasses knowledge — that you may be filled to the measure of all the fullness of…
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Yesterday evening my friend Matt and I visited a local pub/restaurant in Lewisville for an evening of fellowship, darts and watching the baseball All-Star Game on 60 inches of HD goodness. We set up at the back of the restaurant, next to the dart boards, ordered a specialty beer (they were $2) and some food…
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As I enjoy a taco today around the corner from home my thoughts once again turn to the topic of the silence of God. Yesterday my pastor, Steve Hixon, spoke on Habakkuk, the Old Testament prophet who loudly took issue with what he perceived to be the silence of God in regard to justice and…
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Then an angel of the Lord said to Philip, “Get up and go toward the south to the road that goes down from Jerusalem to Gaza.” (This is a wilderness road.) So he got up and went. Now there was an Ethiopian eunuch, a court official of the Candace, queen of the Ethiopians, in charge…
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I’ve been amazed over reading about the story of Richard Holloway, former leader of the Episcopal Church in Scotland, who suddenly (it seemed at the time) resigned his position and became an outspoken skeptic of the Church and of Christians. He released his autobiography, “Leaving Alexandria,” recently and I’ve been reading the reviews in order…
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“Andy was a person of incredibly strong Christian faith and was prepared for the day he would be called Home to his Lord. I cannot imagine life without Andy, but I take comfort and strength in God’s grace and in the knowledge that Andy is at peace and with God.” — Cindi Griffith, in a…
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Last Thursday I saw this headline and it gave me pause: “Michelle Obama cites Jesus as model for citizenship.” The first pause deals with any celebrity “citing Jesus” in public. It makes me cringe because I’ve found that three out of four times what is cited is not exactly what the Bible says about Jesus.…
J.C. Newton 