Cathedrals Notre Dame de Paris, St. Peter’s Basilica, and Canterbury may be some of the most famous cathedrals in the world. Whether you are a Christian or an Atheist, seeing cathedrals up close or stepping inside of them leaves us awestruck and bewildered. They are glorious, beautiful, and almost gravity defying in their impossible greatness. This past week I was
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Leviticus Most Christians have at least made a small attempt to read through the Bible. Most of them have probably tried to do a sort of “read the Bible in a year” challenge or program. Naturally, you start at the beginning of the Bible. Things start of well as you begin with Adam and Eve and progress through Noah and
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Jabez is not a name in the Bible that most people are familiar with. As a matter of fact, if you polled 50 regular church attending people, I would be surprised if even 5 of them have heard of Jabez (unless the minister preached a sermon on him). This is not the case for me. Jabez is someone who I
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Anger is an emotion that everyone is going to come across at some point in their life. Some people go to swearing when they experience anger (See previous post). Personally, anger is not a huge issue in my life. According to my wife, I am a very laid back person. I agree with this as there are very few things that
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“Sticks and stones may break my bones, but words will never hurt me.” We have all heard this at one time or another. The ironic part about this statement is that as soon as someone told this too us we probably thought that they were lying. Someone’s words, or language, had just done some real damage to our character and
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The first thing people are going to think about when they hear “iPod God” is idolatry. This is something that has been pushed around the internet for a while now. You may have even seen some of the technology videos that are telling us to put the iPod down, or the laptop, or to get off Facebook and television. (Example:
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In my last post I looked at Luke 6 and how it relates to kindness. I will now look at the rest of the section which continues to focus on a love for enemies, but also has an aspect that focuses on judgment. Jesus wants us to see that there is a time and place for judgment to be done
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This past week I presented my youth group with a devotional from the book of Luke. My overall goal was to present them with a teaching on kindness. We all know that the Bible is all about kindness and showing people love. Most of us even know that the “Golden Rule” is found in the Bible in a couple of
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Recently I have begun to realize how great a strength is that I have developed over the last decade of my life. My greatest strength is not something that I have ever really thought about, but now I am realizing that it may very well be one of the greatest strengths that I have. This is the ability to not
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All in all the concepts behind being a “world changer” is not a bad aspiration to have in life. However, despite my Alma Matter’s desire to graduate all students as “world changers” this aspiration might be at best unrealistic, and at worst, completely misleading and disappointing. Perhaps the true argument is one of semantics, but I do not think this
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