Hey believer in the American Church, We aren’t heading into a time when the belief and teaching of absolute Biblical Truth in love will be considered an intolerant stance. We are already there. But more on that later. For now consider that our society, through a myriad of influences, may be experiencing the “Paradox of …
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I grew up in the wilds of Eastern Oregon. It didn’t phase me to hike up behind our house to the rock bluff where rattle snakes hid in the cracks and stare down at the valley with the river cutting through it. It was nothing to sleep outside under a black blanket sky with pinhole …
I was not accustomed to things of the miraculous nature before her. She introduced me to a side of Jesus I didn’t grow up knowing first hand. I had heard about this side of Him in the Word, just hadn’t seen it with my own eyes. Touched it with my hands. An African woman who …
“At least my girlfriend is skinny.” Those words dropped like an anvil on my soul wile standing next to the water fountain in the vacant hallway. I was getting a drink during class and ran into the high school boy I had a slight crush on my freshman year, who was dating an upperclassman. We …
I put too much stake in beauty And the Lord allowed age I put too much stake in activism And the Lord allowed grief I put too much stake in creativity And the Lord allowed dryness I put too much stake in desire And the Lord allowed disappointment Until one day I could no longer …
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