Unity in Christ-Grafted Branches

There is a tree in our garden that bears four different types of apples: Golden Delicious, Red Delicious, Fuji and MacIntosh.  I am not an orchardist and I don’t know the first thing about grafting trees, but I know this is the technique used to produce the unique apple tree growing in my yard.  Moreover, […]

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Unity in Christ

Then one of them, named Caiaphas, who was high priest that year, spoke up, ‘You know nothing at all! You do not realize that it is better for you that one man die for the people than that the whole nation perish.’ He did not say this on his own, but as high priest that […]

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Guard Your Heart Part 2

MAY 29, 2011 My last post focused on things we do, or that happen to us, that can create a hard heart.  A hard heart occurs when we ignore the still small voice of God, encouraging us to remain open to Him.  When we place our own wills above the Father’s will for us, and […]

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Snakes, Vipers, Hypocrites

I’ve been feeling pretty guilty because I’m not sure I had the right to be so harsh on Harold Camping in Saturday’s post.  If I make a public mistake, and perhaps I will someday, would I want the world – especially my fellow Christians – to jump down my throat?  Of course not.  I would […]

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End of the World!

This is it, folks.  According to Christian Family Radio and its leader, Harold Camping, this morning’s sunrise was the last we will ever see.  Today, earthquakes and floods will usher in the end of the world…at least the beginning of it.  Or was it the rapture?  Something BIG is supposed to happen today, anyway.  I’ve […]

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Cynicism

Another candidate for cynicism – Bethany Hamilton. See how she overcame it in the film Soul Surfer. Cynicism is poison to the soul.  How do I know?  Because I am a cynic…or at least a recovering cynic.  I have a bent toward cynicism and constantly have to work to resist it.  At least I am […]

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Growth or Grounded?

One of the blogs I follow is the Internet Monk (www.internetmonk.com), and I read with special interest the May 9 post, “The Sermonator and the Culture of Pizzazz,” regarding Chuck Swindoll and the particular evangelical movement, over the past couple of decades, toward ‘entertaining’ or ‘high production’ worship.  You see, I cut my spiritual teeth […]

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To God – With Love

We’ve all heard the saying:  “The main thing is to keep the main thing the main thing.”  I heard it again recently, and wondered, does the Christian faith have a ‘main thing’?  Something that could be considered the heart message of the Gospel of Jesus Christ?  Certainly, John 3:16 comes to mind.  In one succinct […]

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Words that Sting

March 4, 2011 One of the most influential people in my young Christian life, as a new follower of Jesus, was the musician Keith Green. Keith was loved by the Christian masses but not always appreciated by the “formal” church because he was unafraid of sharing God’s truth as he understood it. But no matter […]

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