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5 Child Slavery Figures You Need to Know
IT IS A STARK REALITY, but human slavery is still very much alive in the modern world. In fact, the trade of humankind as property is the second most lucrative criminal enterprise in the globe –...
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Look Who’s Here!
For all creation is waiting eagerly for that future day when God will reveal who his children really are. (Romans 8:19) My wife and I have remarked to one another on several occasions how we’ll...
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Photo Friday ~ Other People’s Souls
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Photography, Questions on Faith, Takes (and retakes) on morality Tagged: belief, faith, family, home group, neighbors, patience, photography, prejudices,...
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A Flippant Phrase as Self-Help Psychology (and Bad Doctrine)
Many people have heard the phrase, “God never gives you more than you can handle.” The person who says it always has the best of intentions; be it whispered in hushed tones either to an acquaintance...
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Photo Friday ~ Love, Like Characters in Romances
Filed under: Faith & Spiritual Drift, Living with Imperfection, Photography, Seasons of doubt, Takes (and retakes) on morality, Topics outside of religion Tagged: Life, love, morality, neighbors,...
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Monday Rewind ~ How to Piss Off a Christian [Let Me Count the Ways]
[Here's a second look at a post I first published on 11/19/2012] 2.3 million hits when you Google “How to piss off a Christian”; and my humble little post from May 2012 is number #2 (no pun intended ....
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A Whole New Can o’ Worms Based on “Hate the Sin”
There’s been a lot of good dialog over the past few weeks based off of a couple posts I ran entitled, “Quote ~ On ‘Hate the Sin’”, and “Further Thoughts on ‘Love the Sinner, Hate the Sin’”. One person...
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Home Group Leadership . . . What Could Possibly Go Wrong!
At Real Life Ministries here in North Idaho, we’re what you’d call a “disciple-making” church. Our mission statement reads, “Reaching the world for Jesus, one person at a time.” Our role is focused...
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5 Reasons I Haven't Left The Church
Reblogged from Discipleship Ink: Its widely popular to talk about how young adults, from my generation on down, (I'm 34, ouch, that hurts to write) are leaving the church. It's a mass exodus of immense...
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Do As I Say . . .
Every morning in my email, I get a daily scripture verse sent to me and several others within our church family, from a friend and former home group member. Today’s verse seemed apropos for some of...
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Frenemies of Christ ~ Repost from Gary Shogren
I thought this was a great post on what exactly “church” is (and isn’t) , and why we do church in the first place. Church: “EVERY-body’s invited!” Have you met the guy who says: Yes, I’m a follower of...
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Setting Down the Bible-Shaped Sledgehammer
I don’t know if I’m writing from a place of conviction, or if I’m just flogging myself unnecessarily, but it seems to be getting harder to find subjects to write about in a 5-800 word blog post lately....
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Christianity, Faith & Atheism: A mega-post on The Fate of “Eternal Consequences”
My good friend Nate posted a couple comments as a reaction to my recent post “Is Progressive Christianity a Slow Path to Atheism?” (follow the link here) I told him I was going to answer him in a...
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BEING RIGHT ≠ BEING LOVE
“…to people who think they have the power to read the entirety of another person’s story after a glance in a store aisle, or a report in a newspaper, or a 140-character tweet.” Mom Has A Powerful...
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What is All This Life-on-Life Stuff?
What the typical model of “church” and “relationship” has devolved into today is more akin to disciple-making through imparting information. In other words, if I tell you something, Biblically...
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The World is Watching: but what is it seeing? (and do we care?)
I read a quote not long ago by the author Rachel Held Evans from her recent book Searching for Sunday. It said this: So many people fit right into church until… the divorce, the diagnosis, the...
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Well, here I am: writing to get back into the habit of writing. I can’t believe it’s been over a year since my last blog post; over sixteen months since my last published book, These Threads of Faith;...
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