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February 23, 2011

Mercy Is Not for the Deserving, It’s for Us

Johnny Cash recorded a song, originally written by Nick Cave, called “The Mercy Seat.” It is a powerful song about a man on death row. There is no indication of what his crime is or what evidence there was against him. Throughout the song he repeatedly...

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February 22, 2011

When Faith Is About Me

The other day I was perusing my prayer journal and came across an entry that I had previously marked with a post-it note as something that would make a good blog entry some day. I reread the entry, but decided it wasn’t quite ready for...

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January 27, 2011

Glad, Gladly, Gladness – A Poem

Today is Thankful Thursday and so I thought about words that are related to being thankful. It occurred to me that if we are thankful for what we have been given and for the blessings in our life, we will have a glad heart, we will worship...

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January 20, 2011

Contented – A Poem

Focusing on what we have instead of what we don’t have creates a thankful heart. Having a thankful heart leads to being contented with the blessings we have been given. When we trust in God to provide that which we need, we can be content no...

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January 19, 2011

The Work of God Is to Believe

This past Sunday our Gospel lesson for the day was from John 6. I love the book of John; it is my favorite of the four Gospels, and possibly my favorite book in the whole Bible. Chapter 6 includes an exchange between Jesus and a...

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December 18, 2010

The Life-Giving Light

I’ve been reading (albeit slowly) through Isaiah and Romans on my Bible-in-a-year schedule. Although I am at chapter 40 of Isaiah, I keep being drawn back to a passage in chapter 26, verses 18-19. 18 We, too, writhe in agony,       but nothing comes of our...

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October 14, 2010

The Politically Incorrect Narrow Gate

There is a movement in the church to forge a new, “progressive Christianity.” One of the primary tenets of this movement is that all religions and faiths are true for their adherents. In other words, progressive Christians reject the core Christian doctrine that Jesus is...

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October 11, 2010

The Hardest Thing

What is the hardest thing about being a Christian? Is it trying to follow the Ten Commandments? Is it going to church every week? How about tithing part of your hard-earned money to the church? Is it letting go of pride and admitting that you can’t...

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October 9, 2010

Praying for the Lost

There are many people in our world who don’t know the peace of having a relationship with Jesus Christ. Every Christian knows someone, whether family, friend, co-worker, or acquaintance, who hasn’t accepted the free gift of salvation and grace offered by God through faith in...

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