If you are a parent, you’ve either thought or said these words: “This is going to hurt me more than it is going to hurt you”. Though they sound silly, they really are true. Sometimes we have to make decisions for our kids that we know ahead of time will be painful for them…but [...]
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Lovingkindness
I am not a student of Hebrew (yet), but I do love digging into the words that lie underneath our modern translations of God’s Word. I ran into one of those words lately while reading through 1 Samuel. This is the section where Jonathan, Saul’s son, promises to do what he can to determine whether [...]
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Faith Expressed
Which of the people shown here would you most easily interact with? Which would you most likely avoid? Which would you assume you have the most in common with? Which would you assume is least like you? Which one is a good person? Which one is a bad person? Which is poor and which [...]
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Pure and Genuine Religion…
Wow. I just spent a week with the wonderful people of Honduras. People that are completely different than us…and exactly the same. I spent a week digging clay and mixing and hauling concrete. I spent a week trying hard to communicate with people that did not speak my language. I spent a week sweating [...]
Corporate
Forgive AND (choose to) Forget
Outflow’s eighth reading includes a reference to 1 Corinthians 13:4-7. These are the famous verses that are so often read at weddings. In fact, they are so familiar, I would suspect that we sometimes don’t really let them impact us. That is tragic, because they are an amazing and challenging definition of love. They tell [...]
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Little or Much?
Luke 7:47 interrupted my quiet little world this morning. It is part of Jesus’ reply to a Pharisee that was complaining about the overwhelming honor a sinful woman paid to Jesus. The complaint? That Jesus would allow such a sinful woman to even touch Him. Jesus explained very simply the difference between the Pharisee’s reaction [...]
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