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There is something so other about Jesus Christ coming to us as a baby. It's strange, it's wonderful, it's holy, it's contradictory. God became human while still being God. Lately the weightiness of this has been on my mind. Jesus is God, and He limited His power and...

Stop and breathe several deep, deep breaths. Talk with God about the problem(s). Scream into a pillow if you need to. Go for a run, a brisk walk, or do some other exercise to get out the pent up energy. Jesus did not promise us lives of ease, but He did promise to...

I see I've missed posting another Thursday, but this time I'm giving myself an excuse because I was enjoying a holiday with family and friends. That holiday was Thanksgiving, and I found myself having a nice quiet time. While having that nice quiet time, I felt...

Most of the time when a kid learns to ride a bicycle, they start with training wheels until they learn how to balance properly, then they don't need them anymore and can do even more while they ride. Sometimes life can be like that. But what happens when you think...

Several posts back (Time for a Change and Some Balance Adjustment) I mentioned setting a day to blog once a week. I'm trying to make that day Thursday, but I've missed it a couple times and made up for it by posting twice the next week. I would have liked to have had...

I was teaching the kids at church about the Good Samaritan tonight (Luke 10:25-37), and it made me think of how I and so many others can be in our own lives. A man asked Jesus a question about how to inherit eternal life. Jesus asked him what the Law (the first few...