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Continue reading →: The back gate the Church has left open for predatorsMy german shepherd Lukas has different barks for different things. One of his barks is very aggressive and intimidating. His body lunges, his teeth shows, he barks from his chest. That’s the, “there’s a predator” bark. At 5 am this morning, Lukas let out an incessant “there’s a predator” bark.…
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Continue reading →: Submission to others as a child of God(Image Credit) Who do you submit to? I know, it’s a weird thought isn’t it? Uncomfortable. I feel defensive as soon as I ask it. “I don’t submit to anyone!” Is my instinctual reaction. But it’s really not true. We all submit to other people in our lives. If we…
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Continue reading →: Thoughts on late term abortion from a labor and delivery nurse perspective
It’s hard for me to remain calm while thinking about the insanity behind bills like the ones in Virginia and New York that seek to make normal and acceptable the act of ending the life of a late-term, pre-born human baby; and in the Virginia case, a newborn infant. But…
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Continue reading →: The church as a body, not a grocery storeGhislaine Howard- The Washing of Feet (1953) I heard it recently on a podcast: We have set up church to be so convenient and easy for folks to get their dose of church on Sunday that we have robbed people of the life-changing joy that comes from taking up your…
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Continue reading →: Church, do we despise the children?Kids are rowdy, they knock over our shiny religious teacups filled with anger, impatience and selfishness. But their rowdiness is no excuse for our complacency. Protecting our whitewashed lives is not what God has called us to. When my boys were little I felt the tension between what I wanted…
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Continue reading →: I learned the gospel from hymnsBlogger and author Tim Challies asked this question on Twitter today: If there was one song you had to sing at every Sunday morning service from now until the day you die, which would it be and why? This evening Mr. Challies tweeted that hymns outpaced non-hymns 25 to 1…
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Continue reading →: The mis-education of a small-town white girlI pulled back the blankets exposing his contracted arm and dark chest. He turned his greying head away from me. I told him my name and what I was about to do. I would bath his arms and upper body, then his lower. I’d help him get dressed and sit at…
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Continue reading →: My heart for Kids Ministry and Senior SaintsTaking up the role of leading the kids ministry at my church was not something on my radar of plans for the future. But the push of the Spirit in my life over the past year or so has been to stop holding on to what God has so graciously…
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Continue reading →: Christian Submission: The eagle dive of freedomSomeone once said to me, ” If you only submit yourself to people you agree with you’re not submitting yourself to anyone. You’re hanging out with people you agree with, but you’re not submitting yourself to anyone.” The point being, at the root of what it means to submit yourself…
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Continue reading →: When you feel like you’re endlessly marching around a wall“Now Jericho was shut up inside and outside because of the people of Israel. None went out, and none came in. And the Lord said to Joshua, “See, I have given Jericho into your hand, with its king and mighty men of valor. You shall march around the city, all…
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