Current Events

  • Twenty-eighteen hasn’t been the happiest of years for my family (so far), though we have still managed to have some pockets of fun in the midst of struggle. Both the lovely Mrs. Newton and I have battled illnesses — acute and chronic — and racked up a few thousand dollars in physicians bills and prescription

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  • Escaping Great Danger in the Kingdom of What If

    Oh, that treacherous kingdom of What If! That world of unknown and possibilities! That place where contemplative, thoughtful and tender-hearted people get stuck and then wiped out by the enemy’s emotional snowball!

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  • Learning to Practice Humility in a World of Pride

    Do nothing from selfishness or empty conceit, but with humility of mind regard one another as more important than yourselves… You should have the same attitude toward one another that Christ Jesus had … (From Philippians 2:3-5) This past Lenten season (Ash Wednesday to Palm Sunday), our church replaced our normal corporate prayer time with

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  • Of Daffodils, Pears & the Renewal of Life

    In the springtime, beauty breaks into the barrenness to remind us that all is not lost in this world. To remind us that God has not abandoned us to cold and heartbreak and foolishness. That things may be void of leaves for a season — bare branches — but they are not necessarily dead. Indeed,…

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