• In Search of the Ideal, Part 3: Death & Loss

    Author’s Note: This is the third part in a series on mankind’s search for the ideal — the perfect, the mature, the right. I m convinced that every human being, Christian or not, has at some depth a desire for things to “be right” in the world. This longing drives us to seek answers. Some

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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 2: Health

    Illness is a part of the fallen condition mankind finds itself in. As part of the curse of Genesis 3 on Adam and Eve, physical death came to humankind and, I assume, sickness and pain. The ideal of fleshly immortality that God created in Eden disappeared and people have been coughing, wheezing, sneezing and itching…

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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 1

    Lately I’ve been really longing for things in this world to be right. Have you ever felt the same? I believe that every human is in search of what is ideal. Nobody likes to be taken advantage of, to be wounded, to suffer personal loss. We all long internally for things to be right, and…

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  • What, Exactly, IS Mardi Gras and Lent?

    This is a re-post of an article I wrote years ago on Mardi Gras and Lent. H0w familiar are you with the histories of these “holidays?” Today being Mardi Gras, why not refresh your memory of the who, what, when, where and why?

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