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The Word: Rising to new life every day
“Put on the new self, created after the likeness of God in true righteousness and holiness.” — Ephesians ...
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The Word: But where are the other three?
While the famous 10 lepers of John, chapter 17, were still on the way to show themselves to ...
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The Word: How do you celebrate Easter?
How do you celebrate Easter? How do you mark the day when our Savior Jesus Christ broke the ...
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The Word: Rejoice and weep
Last weekend, we celebrated my son’s birthday. For nine years, Jonathan has graced our lives with his amazing ...
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The Word: Celebrating Freedom Friday a bit later this month
Let the past be past at last and celebrate Freedom Friday on March 29. “We know that our ...
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The Word: Lincoln and Lent
On August 12, 1861, Abraham Lincoln issued a proclamation. “… (W)hen our own beloved country, once, by the ...
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The Word: The savior ministers individually
Earlier this week, as I walked the dog in the early morning, I heard the plaintive cry of ...
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The Word: Love is a table manner
Eating is one of the most important and vulnerable things we do, and it always has been. Food ...
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The Word: Spare the rod, spoil the Christian
You’ve probably heard the saying “spare the rod, spoil the child.” The point is that if children are ...
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The Word: Of love and revolution
If you search the internet for Lila Rose, you will see immediately that she is a lot of ...
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The Word: Making real changes in our lives
Late last year, after nearly 40 years of playing the soprano clarinet, I decided to switch up and ...
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The Word: What do we feed our souls?
Our family loves breakfast food. We like cinnamon rolls on a lazy Saturday morning, and eggs and bacon ...
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The Word: “From one degree of glory to another”
“And we all, with unveiled face, beholding the glory of the Lord, are being transformed into the same ...
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The Word: ACTS
Early in 1811 a young Frenchman, Jean Vianney, left his convalescent hospital bed to report to the recruiting ...
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The Word: ‘Ye must press forward’
Happy New Year! Over the holiday break, I rode my bike on the High Bridge Trail. It had ...
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The Word: More than a guest room
It’s a staple of the Christmas play we’ve probably seen before: kids in bathrobes as Mary and Joseph, ...
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The Word: Wishing you a Christmas beyond all that you ask
“Now to him who is able to do far more abundantly than all that we ask or think, ...
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The Word: Godliness with contentment
Christmas 1819 did not shape up to be a very relaxing or celebratory feast day for Sister Philippine ...
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The Word: ‘I am the Light of the World’
“I am the light of the world: he that followeth me shall not walk in darkness, but shall ...
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The Word: Keep being thankful
Monday morning, as I drove to the office, I hit play on my podcast app. I had downloaded ...
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The Word: Christ is Coming
My family fosters dogs. What a joy it is to watch these traumatized dogs begin to live again ...
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The Word: Is quoting the Bible hate speech?
Back on Friday, Sept. 15, there was a news broadcast covering the story of a woman from Finland ...
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The Word: ‘In every thing give thanks’
“In every thing give thanks: for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus concerning you” (1 ...
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The Word: Not bothering enough to love
If you are anything like me, your newsfeed has been clogged with horror. Not just bad – horrific. ...
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The Word: Jerusalem – A kingdom that cannot be shaken
The attack by Hamas terrorists on the country of Israel on the morning of October 7 has shaken ...
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The Word: The body of Christ
It was a short climb to the mountain village of O’Cebreiro in Spain. I was hiking a 4-week-long ...
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The Word: Recharging spiritual batteries
With the days getting shorter, I’m using a headlamp as I walk my dog in the dark predawn ...