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Checklist Christianity
Read your Bible. Pray every day, Pray every day, Pray every day. Read your Bible. Pray every day. And you’ll grow, grow, grow. And you’ll grow, grow, grow. And you’ll grow, grow, grow. Read your Bible. Pray every day. And you’ll grow, grow, grow. Don’t read your Bible. Forget to pray, Forget to pray, Forget…
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The Patient Endurance of Small Sorrows
It wasn’t until the second time that our toddler smashed his head into my wife’s chin that she began to cry. We were on vacation with family, and our youngest had been resisting sleep with every muscle in his small but surprisingly strong body. No one feels their best at 3:30 in the morning, but…
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Digital Discipleship: Training Young People for Godly Technology Use
We need a plan. Our families are currently facing the pressures of constant technological connection and a tsunami of digital information. We can react to each new situation as it comes up, but there is a much greater chance of success if we intentionally do something that moves us toward our goal. But what is…
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Nine Easy Ways to (not) Be a Better Christian
Many of us listen to sermons and read articles about how to live a more righteous life, but what about those of us who aren’t sure that’s what we want? Where are the self-help books or devotionals for us? What follows are the best ways I know of to help you move further from God…
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Technology’s Road of Death: Finding the Narrow Path in the Digital Age
Although there are several contenders for the world’s deadliest road, “el Camino de la Muerte,” or the Road of Death, in Bolivia is near the top of every list. This road winds 64 km (40 mi) from the high-altitude capital city of La Paz to the Amazonian lowlands 3,500 m (11,500 ft) below. Some years,…
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🙏🏼 Emojis Can’t Bind Up Wounds
Christians are called to be people of love, but I sometimes wonder if we believe that love means the absence of hate. “I don’t hate or have hard feelings toward my brother, so that must mean I love him.” Love is an action word; it gives, shares, and sacrifices. It acts on behalf of the…
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The Fall of Authorities
This is the second part of a two-part series. You can read Part 1 here. For hundreds of years, the places where we would usually go when we had a question or an uncertainty were institutions and authorities. These might be the church, the state, the press, reference books, or a wise person in our…
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Drawn Toward Infinity
Lying on your back in the dewy grass on a cool and moonless summer night, you look up at an expanse of stars that speckle the blackness. When you look long enough at one spot, you feel a slight change in the pressure of the ground on your back, almost as if the gravitational pull…
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Drowning in Facts, Starving for Truth—Part 1
I’m not sure when it happened, but sometime in the last fifteen to twenty years I began to feel it. It was a tingling anxiety and tension that began in my gut and kept growing until I was finally aware of it. It told me that, where I had previously stood firm on my interpretation…
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Heads Bent, Hearts Apart: The Social Cost of Our Device Dependence
Imagine visiting the grocery store that’s a fifteen-minute drive from your home. Shortly after entering the store, you see a woman in a worn shirt, shorts, and flip-flops maneuvering a grocery cart past shelves filled with Doritos, Swiss Rolls, and Zebra Cakes. Two children slouch in the cart, in thrall to the green and hot…
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