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Dangerous Prayers
In a letter historians call “The Epistle to Diognetus,” an unknown second-century follower of Jesus wrote to a non-Christian skeptic named Diognetus to answer his questions about this strange new religion called Christianity. The opening lines of his letter capture what Diognetus must have found so appealing about followers of Jesus roughly eighteen hundred years...
A Children’s Sermon to Remember
Our pain can draw people to Jesus when it changes us so we can deliver the message about the afterlife in a way God himself would want it to be communicated. When we first become Christians, we’re not exactly the most ideal candidates to handle public relations for the Almighty. If the president of the...
How We Find The Words
When our youngest daughter was six weeks old, she came down with what we thought was a severe cold. We took her to the doctor and he told us to take her immediately to the hospital, where she was diagnosed with RSV (respiratory syncytial virus). Doctors told us RSV is easily treatable but that she...
See What’s Important
Years ago I started a meaningful ceremony that I conduct at every rehearsal before each wedding I perform. I gather everyone in the wedding party-family and friends-in a circle and ask them to join hands. I talk about how special this event is for the couple in the circle and explain that having the approval...
Living Inside Someone Else’s Skin
Frederick Buechner once said, “Compassion is the sometimes fatal capacity for feeling what it’s like to live inside somebody else’s skin. It is the knowledge that there can never really be any peace and joy for me until there is peace and joy finally for you too.” That’s what it’s like to have Jesus’ heart...
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