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Faith: How Much? In What?
Faith is essentially knowing that what you need is right there when you need it, knowing that what you need to work is going to work. It's not always a big thing either, just a simple knowing that something or someone is or will be there for you. But if your faith is...
Remembering Specific Sacrifices
On Memorial Day we remember and talk about warriors who have died to protect our country. We talk about their sacrifices, but sometimes we don't think about specific ones. Death is the obvious sacrifice, but these people also sacrificed their families and some of...
Losing Prejudice, Gaining Understanding
Do you ant to lose some of your prejudice (perhaps even unknown prejudice) and expand your horizons of understanding people? Travel somewhere out of your country, someplace you aren't used to. Get with your church and call up a missionary to ask if you and maybe one...
Why Me?
Sometimes when horrible things happen we ask, "Why me? Why is this happening to me?" But the other day I thought, "Well why shouldn't this have happened to me? What qualifications do I meet that would exclude me from the woes of human suffering that others must also...
Gaming Lessons
I've written a few gaming metaphors/lessons before in Video Game Lessons. I want to talk more in gaming terms and expand on them a little better. Everyone else is not an NPC in your story, they are all heroes and adventurers in their own stories, and you don't know...
God’s Love Through a Mother
I've mentioned before that we talk a lot about how God's love can be seen through a good father, but we don't talk as often about how God's love can be seen through a good mother as well (God's Love and Mothers). I'm going to do it again. Good mothers love us when...