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On Overcoming Bitterness

On Overcoming Bitterness

Do you remember the play/movie “Little Shop of Horrors”? If I remember correctly (it’s been a few decades since I’ve seen it), there was a man who owned a Venus Fly Trap, and had to keep murdering people to keep his plant fed. The plant consumed his life and all his...
Squatting with Kids

Squatting with Kids

There are two things I want to tell you about this picture… The first is that this is my pastor, and this is a perfect picture of why we love him so much.  I was just about to teach these same kids about ]Jesus doing the same thing.  He got on their level and...
Communion Precedes the Tithe

Communion Precedes the Tithe

I peered over the pages of a well-worn story, noticing something I’d previously overlooked. Genesis 14 is the first encounter we have of one of Scripture’s most puzzling characters, Melchizedek.  In Hebrews, He is expounded upon, and sounds something like...
Open-Handedness

Open-Handedness

I found myself talking about the concept of living with open hands so many times over the past week that it seems necessary to write about it… Open-handed Generosity I walked outside with two younger friends, to shower them with a little love in the form of...
Memorize Beauty

Memorize Beauty

I am fasting right now.  I almost didn’t write this post, because fasting is such a personal thing, and usually meant to stay between a girl (or guy) and her God, but in this case, it’s at the spark that ignited these thoughts, so it must be said.  Back to...
The Often-Overlooked Sadducees

The Often-Overlooked Sadducees

It intrigues me, how the Bible talks of two groups of people who were the religious zealots of Christ’s day, but we usually only focus on one.  The Pharisees.  How few of us ever even consider the Sadducees?  I know I am guilty of such an overlook.  Recently it...

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