Tag: scripture
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Team Jesus
I have played sports all my life. Growing up, it was mainly baseball, with some basketball on the side for fun, and for the extra cardio. When my baseball career ended, I picked up golf, and I also began to play way more basketball than I ever had before. I started at the UNLV gym…
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Daily Thoughts | 1
Every December, my wife and I read through the gospel of Luke for “advent reading.” There are 24 days in December leading up to Christmas, and it happens to be the case that there are 24 chapters in the gospel of Luke, so we read one chapter per day starting on December 1st, and finishing…
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Good Grief
The monstrous clouds had billowed in and brought with them the rain.The forecast promised sunny skies, but those were done away. I saw it not approaching—the thunderous night ahead.Hatches best be battened down lest comfort turn to dread. I sheltered in and lit a fire to wait this tempest out.But soon the gale began to…
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Don’t Blame Jesus
“If Christianity is true why are not all Christians obviously nicer than all non-Christians? … If conversion to Christianity makes no improvement in a man’s outward actions — if he continues to be just as snobbish or spiteful or envious or ambitious as he was before — then I think we must suspect that his…
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Prayer Changes Everything
Believer, Sometimes prayer changes things with time, and sometimes prayer changes things in a moment, but prayer always, always changes things . What’s more, what prayer changes isn’t always, firstly, our circumstances, but us and our perspective. When I was younger, I had a sincere and well-meaning, but weak, view and understanding of prayer —…
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