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Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 5
Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 5
By Chick Todd
In this series on the Seven Last Words of Christ, we are at the point in his passion where he is nearing the end of his earthly life.
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Child-free Manifesto? God had other plans
Child-free Manifesto? God had other plans
By Amy Alexander
I was one of them. Married, successful, by worldly standards, and perfectly happy to not have children. I spoke these words loudly to anyone who would listen. My husband agreed.
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Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 4
Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 4
By Chick Todd
Today we are looking at the fourth time Jesus spoke from the Cross. Now that we've gotten the transliteration – the representation of letters or words written in one alphabet using the corresponding letters of another – and pronunciation down, we can look at what this means.
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Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 3
Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 3
By Chick Todd
Reflecting on the third Friday of Lent, we continue with the Seven Words of Christ. In this scene at the foot of the Cross, Mary the Mother of Jesus, the Apostle John, and other women who were friends and supporters of Jesus and the Disciples are near enough to the Cross that they can see and hear Jesus and he can see them.
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Flowers at the Gate
Flowers at the Gate
By Denise Smith
Coming off of a beautiful Mother's Day weekend including wonderful family get-togethers I am so grateful to God for my many blessings. Despite very rainy weather the celebrations were not at all dampened.
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A Connecticut Yankee in King Jesus' Court - part 1
A Connecticut Yankee in King Jesus' Court - part 1
By Bill Dunn
Jerry Francis gazed at the stars, twinkling brightly against the pitch black sky. How pretty, he thought. Then his attention shifted as he realized thorns were poking him in the back.
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Empire of the Cross; Layers of Our Faith
Empire of the Cross; Layers of Our Faith
By Caitlin Bootsma
If you’ve ever visited Rome and had a sense of deja vu or that you were somehow “home”, you wouldn’t be the only one. Many Catholics feel this connection to the Eternal City, despite not having a drop of Italian blood in them. This feeling is reinforced by stumbling upon millennia of Church history contained within hundreds of Churches, rich liturgical art, and even roadside shrines or monuments.
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Why Did Satan Fall?
Why Did Satan Fall?
By Allen Scovil
Why did Satan fall? All the commentators I’ve read say that he fell through pride, and I have no problem with that; but what form did it take? I mean, what could possibly have been so attractive to him that he would reject the living God?
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Awake oh my soul, Awake!
Awake oh my soul, Awake!
By Elizabeth Thomas
Daily, I have three alarm clocks—two cats and one dog. By 6 am at the latest, they have me up—to toilet and to feed. This morning as I tried to lie down again, I realized –“no use, I am awake.” “What is wrong with awake?”
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Dinner's On! Ya'll Come!
Dinner's On! Ya'll Come!
By Elizabeth Thomas
IT’S TIME!!!!, “Come, everything is ready. But one by one they all began to excuse themselves.” (Luke 14 verse 15.) This world and all that is in it—is a feast laid out for us, with all that we could ever want or hope for. Plus the very Presence of the Bridegroom in our midst—ready—and we are told to COME!
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Who Is Responsible for the Development of Character?
Who Is Responsible for the Development of Character?
By Rosemary Bogdan
Psychiatrist Peter C. Whybrow recently wrote an opinion piece in the Wall Street Journal ("This IsYour Brain on Easy Credit"), adapted from his upcoming book The Well TunedBrain: Neuroscience and the LifeWell Lived.
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7 Ways to Pursue Beauty (and Faith!) This Spring
7 Ways to Pursue Beauty (and Faith!) This Spring
By Caitlin Bootsma
Dostoevsky claimed that “Beauty can save the world.” And Yeats wrote, “Beauty is truth, truth beauty,'--that is all/Ye know on earth, and all ye need to know.” In other words, beauty is powerful. As Christians, we know that beauty is even more potent still because God is the source of Beauty, of all that is good.
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4:157
4:157
By David R. Myers
Before entering a career in Information Technology, I was a journalist. I wrote for a newspaper and later became a corporate communications specialist for a utility company. The instincts I picked up as a journalist – to vet everything before printing it – has never left me. There’s nothing worse than reporting something as a fact without sufficient material to support that fact.
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The Sorrowful Mysteries
The Sorrowful Mysteries
By Catherine Garrett
Driving home the other day from a nice vacation with my family I was praying my rosary. It being Friday, I was reciting the sorrowful mysteries. Well through the first mystery, The Agony In The Garden, I thought about the number of times I have prayed before something big in my life. A surgery, a horse show, going away to college, having my babies, and of course before our wedding!
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Did God Establish Evolution?
Did God Establish Evolution?
By Steven R. Hemler
In contrast with evolutionary naturalism, evolutionary creation is another way to understand the development of life on earth. Evolutionary creation is the idea that God ordained and sustained the gradual evolution of life. This approach is a reasonable and well-supported balance between faith and science.
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Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 1
Seven Last Words of Christ - Part 1
By Chick Todd
Genesis 50:16-17 –16 So they approached Joseph, saying, "Your father gave this instruction before he died, 17 'Say to Joseph: I beg you, forgive the crime of your brothers and the wrong they did in harming you.' Now therefore please forgive the crime of the servants of the God of your father." This is the first occurrence in the Bible of using the word forgive when asking for forgiveness.
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What If--This Is the Beginning of the End?
What If--This Is the Beginning of the End?
By Elizabeth Thomas
I visited with an elderly aunt today who had what seemed to be a passing TIA or mini stroke that kept her for three days with very weak leg, slurred speech and facial droop.
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