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The Bible is filled with important lessons. When we teach them to children, we often only tell the stories, or simplify things into a version they can understand. Sometimes we pare things down for very young children who can't understand larger themes yet. Even for...

When you do something in someone's name, you are doing it on their behalf, with their authority, as if you are that person. So people will rightly assume that you have permission or orders to do this thing, whether you actually do or not. If you are a Christian, you...

Yesterday I was listening to my dad teach Sunday School. One of the things that stuck out was getting on God's timetable. God doesn't view or do time like we do. He invented it and sees it all at once, so while we're sitting here in a hurry wishing God would do or say...

Sometimes in life we don't notice good things as much until there's something different, something bad, or something wrong. Not that we don't notice good things at all, it's just sometimes they are highlighted when something around us is not going well. Light is more...

I recently came across a note a friend wrote to me earlier this year. It felt good to read the words again, and today I started thinking about how good kind words can make you feel. It doesn't take a lot of words either. Just a couple words of kindness feel quite...

Sometimes when I think of give and take in a relationship, I think more of the giving part. But sometimes I do need to take, and I don't always want to. Something about it feels like I'm stealing or being needy, but neither of those is true. Just like I would give to...