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Continue reading →: Help One Another ClimbClimbing Mt. Everest is one of the most grueling and extreme experiences on earth. Even with intense training and professionally-guided teams, people die attempting it every year. Think you could do it by yourself? Impossible. This is the kind of imagery that Hebrews 10 uses for the Christian life. Just…
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Continue reading →: Jesus, Like a Seaside CliffTemptation slips around my feet, a tide that rises—ankles, knees—and tugs and crawls away. The sand deceives, seems firm, but slides and sucks my feet beneath the muck—I fall. Temptation crashes like a tempest wave against my feeble work to rise, and down with giddy rage it slams me. Hope…
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Continue reading →: What’s the Solution to Abortion?Imagine trying to treat cancer with ibuprofen. It might mask some of the painful symptoms, but it won’t cure the cancer. Now imagine trying to stop abortion with mere politics. It might restrain some of the evil, but it won’t cure the problem. Are laws important for protecting unborn lives?…
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Continue reading →: Winter TreesWinter trees together—alone—Reaching to heaven with bare-boneHands. Colorful choirs, festive cries,Hushed to gray prayers by gray skies.Winter trees between life and death,The winter breeze the only breathThat stirs a rattling rasp—a gasp—How long, O Sun, ‘til warmth we grasp?Winter trees under icy wait,Stripped of each sprig of life but faith.Creation…
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Continue reading →: God’s GreatnessI spoke unto the starry sky, “Can you tell me all God’s greatness?”They answered, “Every star and planet, the vaulted halls of space,Are but a corner of his work—the art his fingers traced.”I spoke unto the angels bright, “Can you tell me all God’s greatness?”They answered, “Day and night we…


