What to Do When You Don’t Want to Love Your Spouse: Psalm 90:17 (NKJV)
And let the beauty of the LORD our God be upon us, And establish the work of our hands for us; Yes, establish the work of our hands. Psalm 90:17 (NKJV) Do you remember your first disagreement with your spouse? Maybe you felt undervalued or misunderstood. Maybe you thought your spouse could be doing a better job. Maybe you…
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What Paul Never Prayed For
Last week was Veterans Day and I couldn’t help but remember that day by honoring a late neighbor and reflecting on how our lives intersected at a critical time in his life. The encounter also helped me to find a theme in Scripture that I had not noticed before. I moved into a new home a few years ago and…
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Sunday Morning Time Travel
We try valiantly to limit media consumption in our home, but as any parent knows, it’s incredibly difficult. And as any stay-at-home parent knows, it’s especially difficult when your kids are operating at maximum “twerpitude” and driving each other—and you—crazy. Sometimes, when we are in each other’s faces, the combined idiosyncrasies are just too much; I give in and tell…
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Five Questions to Guide Your Bible Reading
Though I’d grown up in the church and had earned my share of Scripture memory badges in Sunday School, I was an adult before I realized I didn’t actually understand much of the Bible. I knew how to pull out a verse of encouragement when I needed hope, and I knew how to identify sin in myself and others, but…
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Learn From My Bible-Reading Mistakes
For years I struggled with Bible reading. Not only was Scripture challenging to understand, but that challenge also left me with a lack of desire to read it. Every day I felt defeated before I even started; and most days I didn’t start at all. I eventually learned that I was making three primary mistakes in my approach to reading…
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Why Read Matthew’s Gospel?
There’s something I’ve noticed when I get together with old friends to talk about days gone by: we remember the same events differently. Sometimes these differences involve discrepancies that beg to be resolved. But usually they involve different perspectives; different angles on the same event, with each person contributing a part of the whole that none of us possesses alone.…
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The Most Famous Embrace
One clue that a fictional character has become truly influential in a culture is when that character is known by people who have never read the novels or seen the films in which that character first appeared. Many people know who Sherlock Holmes is even if they have never read a word of Sir Arthur Conan Doyle’s stories about him.…
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