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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 5: Love & Company

    Humans were not made to be alone, a lesson learned from Eden. We need other people. For Christians, this need is double. We not only need the social fellowship but we need the spiritual support. Humans partner up for a reason, and this reason is support.

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  • In Search of the Ideal, Part 4: Of Birds & Men (Creation)

    There is little more than I would enjoy in this life than to have a perfect relationship with God’s creatures. I really want them to trust me and to see me as God’s representative, here on planet earth to protect them, provide when they have need, and be a conduit of God’s grace to them.…

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  • 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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