Archive for September, 2009

Several years ago I got what I took to be a revelation from God about trust. That is, that it must be given before it can be earned. Though we may by observation deem someone worthy of our trust before committing to them, we can only truly know whether that assessment was merited after...
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I like to post interesting or currently relevant links I find while browsing.  I want people to be aware of what’s going on around us.  I almost skipped over this one because it wasn’t news.  Why would I say that?  I say that because it is exactly the kind of thing we should expect...
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I know I’ve been on this topic before, but I think it has been a while and it’s on my mind this morning. That’s because I had to make some decisions today and I didn’t make all the best ones. I woke up extra early again and immediately started thinking about things that should...
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I want to say how encouraged I am by something that happened with the members of our church this week. I guess I shouldn’t have been surprised. We have some wonderful folks who are always going out of their way to serve. Yet I was surprised because I didn’t think the event was general...
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It amazes me that intelligent people embrace the idea that truth is a subjective concept. If you are one of those people, I would like to engage you directly. The modern trend is to compartmentalize religious belief, reducing its relevance to the realities of life. Yet most of us acknowledge God in some form....
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Most people probably don’t know that some traffic signals have been designed to make noise so that someone who is blind will know when it is safe to cross the street. There aren’t many of them around. An acquaintance from years past once told me that they were common in Sweden. I think I...
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A few weeks ago it seemed to me that God gave me the topic for last Sunday. It was something I’d been thinking about for a while and tied in to my quest to understand how God works through us today. That weekend I spent the afternoon looking into the name of Jesus and...
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