Sabina K. (2015)
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do not despise the day of small groups Some three hundred years ago, an unusual kind of church gathering spread throughout the English-speaking world like fir...
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do you wish to be pure Life calls us to do hard things. Athletes push through tremendous pain to gain victories. Doctors perform long, delicat...
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expect god to do something unexpected God doesn’t do things the way we think he should.  That theme emerges reading de-conversion stories or listening to pe...
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finding joy in the dark - the bold prayer of psalm 70 I recently spent three days with a group of pastors, almost all our time devoted to deep sharing of our life stories. W...
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god filled your bible with poems I define poetry as an effort to share a moving experience by using language that is chosen and structured differently ...
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lean into the hill - a runner’s lesson for the christian life Sometimes I wonder if the apostle Paul might have been a runner. Running is a curiously common theme in his sermons an...
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the deadly deceit in material desires Bible study often exposes us. As I sat in a Bible study recently, the leader asked our group how we heard Jesus’s voic...
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the friend we all need “A friend loves at all times, and a brother is born for adversity” (Proverbs 17:17). What a joy it is to have a friend,...
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the most wonderful books on earth As many begin a new year of Bible reading, we would do well to remember one of the chief dangers: searching the Scriptu...
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the only certain hope on earth “It is the hope that kills you,” as many English football (soccer) fans say. Is it not better to have low expectations ...
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