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A Still, Sad Saturday – part 2 (conclusion)

A Facebook site began in his honor to communicate to everybody how he was doing, and hundreds upon hundreds of people began to pray. A benefit concert took place to help the family financially with the medical costs. No one really realized just how terrible his health was because he never stopped joking around, smiling […]

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A Still, Sad Saturday

It’s a quiet Saturday afternoon. The clouds hide the sunshine, the neighborhood sounds are void of laughing children or lawn mowers. It is still, yet in the distance, a siren haunts the air, heavy with emergency, ominous and foreboding. I find myself alone. My husband and son are off on a Boy Scouts campout, and […]

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Christian in name only?

Surprising Answers People Give for Calling Themselves “Christian”

Just because someone says they’re a Christian, doesn’t mean that they even understand what it’s like to be follower of Jesus Christ. Some just say it’s because that is how they were raised, or it’s because they think it’s American to be a Christian. They are “Christian in name only (CHINOs).” If you were to ask them […]

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The Heart of Sam; a gut-wrenching crisis

Today is a day when all you have are “Whys?” and your soul feels so heavy within you, it’s as if, in itself, it’s dragging your body around. I got some terrifying news this evening. A very dear friend’s son is having his heart removed tomorrow. It will be replaced with a mechanical one. He’s only […]

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Stop Looking Inside for Your Identity — Look Out!

What if, to truly find our identities in Christ, we stop looking inward as much and find ourselves by looking outward? By participating in the greater good, the Body of Christ as a whole, in the bigger picture of God’s narrative, we find ourselves by where we fit in that Body of Christ — how […]

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