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Dueling Politicians; Political Difference that Get Out of Hand
Now that the shutdown is over and the debt ceiling is up, it’s time to do some Monday morning quarterbacking. I am reminded a story I read recently in Joseph J. Ellis’s book, Founding Brothers. If I were the true academic, I would reread, fact check, and footnote. But sometimes I just tell ‘em as I […]
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Big-Picture Prophecy; Your Life as an Epic Novel Rather than a Sitcom
Many years ago, a man gave me a scripture verse as a prophetic word (i.e. he felt God had inspired him to share a verse as a specific message from God to me). It was kind of like a text message from God — short, cryptic, to the point, and without a lot of explanation. […]
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Roots and Foundations: Two Perspectives of Discipleship
We regularly use the word “foundations” as a generic term for basic teachings about Christianity. In fact, that word is so ingrained in our thinking that it is difficult to talk for more than a sentence or two about elementary principles of Christian belief or Christian discipleship without using the word “foundations.” At Every Nation, […]
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If I Was a Rich Man
Most of us at one time or another have put our own voice to the lines of Tevye the milkman in Fiddler on the Roof, “If I was a Rich man…” Our fantasies usually begin with some mean of acquiring this sudden wealth — a great invention, an unexpected inheritance, the winning lottery numbers. Then […]
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