Category: Christian Living
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Ebony and Ivory
Can we all get along?
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Throw Out the Life Line
Got a spiritual escape plan?
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The Power of Suggestion
Last week one of my kindergarten music classes played rhythm sticks. I came down the rows afterwards giving each child a squirt of hand sanitizer. One little guy asked, “Is that hypnotizer?” I immediately realized what happened: he substituted a word he’d heard for a term he hadn’t yet mastered. With a chuckle, I told…
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Teddy Bear Out The Window
My wife and I were driving to church one Sunday morning, when there he was: a big brown teddy bear—lying face up on the shoulder of the interstate. Both of us agreed there must be a story behind this seemingly lost friend, one that involved a heartbroken little person. It’s interesting how we develop emotional…
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Heaven. This Isn’t It!
The year I turned fifteen, my dad took my older brother and me on a fishing trip to Mexico. But first we had to get to my uncle Bill’s house in Alamogordo, New Mexico. From there we would fly south of the border in his Cessna. I was reared on the Great Plains of the…
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Illusions of Fairness
The flip side of getting one’s own way.
