Tag: Jesus
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How you live your faith can change with time
I’m reflecting on how I’ve tried to live out my faith and how what that looks like has changed over the years.
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I came to believe
Anyone who believes in God has to make a leap of faith to do it.
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Christmas calls you home
A meditation this Christmas: the birth of Christ calls you home.
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A brief history of Christmas
The Christmas celebration is a relatively recent thing. It’s not commanded of us. So if others don’t celebrate, leave them be.
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Things I wish Christians would stop saying: “There’s a war on Christmas”
The Bible tells the story of Jesus’s birth twice: once in Matthew, once in Luke. But in neither telling, nor anywhere else in the New Testament, are we told to celebrate the event. It is our choice to do this. God does not command it. The closest the New Testament comes to telling us to…
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Things I wish Christians would stop saying: “The Bible is our instruction manual”
What do I do now? We all say this more than once in our lives, at times when we seem to have no options or when all the things we know to do aren’t working. At these times, many of us naturally seek counsel, coaching, or advice. Those of us who are Christians also turn to God…
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Things I wish Christians would stop saying: “Joy means putting Jesus first, others second, and yourself last”
I first heard this phrase when I first taught Sunday school at a particular church. A plaque on the door read “J.O.Y. Classroom.” I had to ask what J.O.Y. stood for. Outspoken Shirley, unofficial class spokesperson, shook her head at me as if I had been living under a rock since my baptism. “How have…
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I came to believe
I’ve been thinking for months about writing a post called, “Why I follow God.” It all started when two bloggers I follow began discussing God’s existence with each other on their blogs. In short, one believes and the other doesn’t. I wanted to add to the discussion, but the more I thought about it the more my…
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The temple’s grandeur
Thanks to Solomon’s sins, Israel found itself exiled, scattered across Babylon. Jersualem, and Solomon’s glorious temple with it, was destroyed. But much later, as God said would happen, King Cyrus allowed any Jews who wanted to return to Jerusalem and rebuild. 50,000 of them went back, and right away started work on an altar and the…