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The News of the Day and Advent
The world overlooks the small corners of the world, but it is in those small corners that the Kingdom will often show up.
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The ties that bind together mass shootings
When we refuse to respond like the rest of the world, and when we bless instead of curse… and when we pour out forgiveness instead of hatred… there is something that is possible in the heart.
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God WILL fix it… you just won’t like HIS answer
God doesn’t consult our foreign policy experts to decide how he will deal with those who wreak havoc on this world.
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Awful Advent Reminders
What if we, as believers, just began praying in earnest for the fall of ISIS and the removal of Assad?
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Advent: The reminder to quit being such suckers!
It’s our reactions that are too often shameful or puzzling or based on fear that should give us pause. We don’t pause. We just react.
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No thanks, I would rather yell
Yelling is cathartic. Yelling makes me sound serious. Yelling helps me insult someone I’ve really wanted to insult all along but now I have a good excuse.
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Praying down strongholds like ISIS
This is a time I am so glad to be anchored in the Scriptures: We give thanks to you, God. Yes, we give thanks! Your name is near. Your marvelous deeds are declared. God says, “When I decide the time is right, I will establish justice just so. The earth and all its inhabitants will melt, but I will keep…
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Paris, Beirut, Cancer, and the Word of God
We need the presence of the LIVING Word calling us out to gain perspective.
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Help us care. Help us pray!
More persecution. How we need to lift up the Body of Christ in prayer! Bishop Angaelos, the general bishop of the Coptic Orthodox Church in the United Kingdom, underscored the Ethiopians’ testimony. “Once again we see innocent Christians murdered purely for refusing to renounce their faith,” he said in a statement. “As Christians, we remain committed to our initial instinct…
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The devaluing of human life
Usually when it comes to war and use of force, especially use of troops, media sources like The New York Times are fairly pacifist. (Depending on the president in office at the time and their political party, of course.) Generally speaking, many media outlets back off the calling for use of force. But this editorial in The New York Times was strident. They…
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