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Too often we confuse God’s calling for our lives with a paid vocation.

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The word ‘meme’ itself was coined in 1976.

I had laid the foundation as soon as the frost was out of the ground and was framing the walls when Gloria was diagnosed with signet cell carcinoma, an aggressive appendix cancer.

Sitting under a cloudless sky with an afternoon sun baking my skull and turning my balding head bright red didn’t sound like anything I wanted to do.

This Canaanite intuits that Jesus gives spiritual bread. She is not too proud to beg.

What we see in Jesus’ truthing is the embodiment—the flesh and blood expression—of God’s love.

I am touched when I see teenagers raising their hands in contemporary worship, singing at the top of their voices, with tears flowing down their cheeks.

Can someone who is divorced and remarried serve as an elder?

It’s a time to remember, honor, and pray for persecuted Christians.

My father thinks it’s God-ordained, but my mother disagrees. Who is right?

I affirm that, indeed, God is love and that we come to know something of God through experiencing and witnessing love.

Faith formation is more than just acquiring knowledge. It is about transformation.

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