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Reading Parables
That same day Jesus went out of the house and sat by the lake. Such large crowds gathered around him that he got into a boat and sat in it, while all the people stood on the shore. Then he told them many things in parables, saying: “A farmer went out to sow his seed.…
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Veiled Immortals
At that moment, I realized that it isn’t when people pass out of this world that they put on their immortal soul—they wear immortality from birth to beyond the grave. Our broken and marred bodies can easily obscure the eternal nature of our souls, but that doesn’t change the underlying reality of how we were…
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The Most Powerful Thing
What has the creative potential to uncover buried knowledge, explore vast frontiers, and develop new technologies, yet is also destructive enough to wreck a person or to even doom the world? A question. We ask questions when we need to solve a problem. We ask questions to start a discussion. We ask questions when we…
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Hidden Danger
The morning of August 22, 1986, seemed like just another quiet morning beside Lake Nyos in northwest Cameroon. Ephriam Che, a farmer with four children, walked from his home down to the neighboring village. At first everything seemed normal, but it was unusually quiet. No birds sang, no insects buzzed. The normally blue waters of…
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The Fountains of the Deep
“In the six hundredth year of Noah’s life, in the second month, on the seventeenth day of the month, on that day all the fountains of the great deep burst forth, and the windows of the heavens were opened. . . The flood continued forty days on the earth. The waters increased and bore up…
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Common Miracles
Nearly every morning I watch through our west-facing windows as the rising sun illuminates the hill, barn, and outbuildings of the farm across the road. It starts as a pale gray, then brighter and brighter until the direct rays of the sun fall on the hill. The line of sunlight then marches down and across…
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. . . And the gates of Hell shall not. . .
The Church is under attack. The surrounding culture continually dashes against the walls of the Church, pushing them farther back and back. What was once verboten in Western culture, divorce and remarriage, homosexuality, killing of the unborn, are now not only accepted, but celebrated. Those who do not approve of such activities are bigoted, homophobic,…
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Incorrect Focus
The Story of a Telescope By the time the Hubble Space Telescope launched inside the payload bay of the Space Shuttle Discovery on April 24, 1990, the telescope had cost around 4.7 billion dollars and had taken over a decade to design and build. It had run nearly seven years past its original launch date…
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How Does My Phone Affect My Spiritual Growth?
We all want to develop spiritually and grow closer to the Lord, but it often doesn’t happen as quickly as it seems it should. Perhaps you’ve been a believer for years or even decades and it still doesn’t feel like you are a much more mature Christian than you were a few months after you…
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Injustice Among Brethren
Outside opposition is often easy to address because a group is easily united against pressures from outside. However, dealing with abuses and injustices emanating from inside of a group can cause fractures and then factions that can completely destroy the group from within.
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