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3 Insights for A Faithful Life

BlogJanuary 20, 2021480Views0Likes0Comments
Our busy lives really do challenge us in keeping our priorities in the right order, don’t they? We moderns are a complicated mishmash of schedules, opportunities, affluence, and “freedom.” And that multiplication of events, desires, hopes, and advertisements don’t seem to be slowing down. It seems that each new day brings a new barrage of…

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Look To Yourself And Know Yourself

BlogJanuary 19, 2021495Views0Likes0Comments
The great, ancient philosopher Lao Tzu said "Knowing others is intelligence; knowing yourself is true wisdom. Mastering others is strength; mastering yourself is true power." And I would, arrogantly, add that the first step in mastering yourself is truly knowing yourself. And that, my angels, is much more profound than what any of us might imagine. Of…

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After the Temptation

BlogJanuary 14, 2021483Views0Likes0Comments
The old saying is "It is easier to avoid temptation than to resist it." And while that may be true, our real lives have shown is that we will most likely have to resist temptation more than we will be attentive enough to avoid it! But that isn't all bad. The truth is learning to resist…

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How Do You KNOW?

BlogJanuary 13, 2021399Views0Likes0Comments
I never will forget the moment in college when I was confronted with the question "how do you know?" It was in an undergraduate philosophy class and I had actually never really thought about "how" I knew things. The fancy name for this is "epistemology." And epistemology is the study of how we know. It…

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He Escaped!

BlogJanuary 12, 2021447Views0Likes0Comments
OK, I'm afraid of closed in places. I think it's called "claustrophobia." The first time I remember discovering this uneasy feeling was when I was a boy and we were playing hide and seek. I found this perfect hiding place in a small cupboard in the kitchen. And it must have been a good spot…

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Hiding From Death

BlogJanuary 8, 2021380Views0Likes2Comments
We are a death-denying culture. In the US, the Funeral business is a $20 Billion industry employing over 13,000 people nationwide! And, in 2016 we crossed that line where over half of the American’s who passed away choose cremation over a burial. If we don’t choose cremation, we apply technics to the body to make…

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