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Whoever loves God must also love his brother and sister.  That's not from me.  It's from the Bible.  Certainly, non-Christians might feel no obligation to obey it.  But if we're Christian, it's not a suggestion.  It's not just a "nice" thing to think about.  It's a command!  And there aren't any ...

We move on to the fifth of the seven letters in Revelation.  We're on the home-stretch.  This time the letter to the dead church in Sardis.  Jesus has very little in the way of good things to say about the church in Sardis.  And, of course, bad things.  In this ...

... the Chinese government continues to make heavy-handed moves to rein in Chinese Christians. In the name of maintaining safety and beauty", the CCP has bulldozed churches and torn down crosses all painted red as reminders of the blood shed by the faithful when Mao Zedong's troops tried to erase ...

Do you not know that bombs kill men? Or do you not realise that the patient’s death, at this moment, is precisely what we want to avoid? ... This is so obvious that I am ashamed to write it ...

You can take the ___ out of ___, but ...   Let's fill in the blanks.  Sort of.  As in - through Moses, God took the Israelites out of Egypt, but you can't take Egypt out of the Israelites ...

What religion was Abraham? After all, he is claimed as the father of Judaism, Christianity, and Islam. Two of those religions took one path to get from Abraham to their religions that exist today. However, the other one took a different path to get from the man who used to ...

It's hard to write these days. There's been something missing. The title says a lot about the problem - Peace I Give To You. I wrote those words almost three years ago.  Along with much of what follows. The thing is - peace is still a problem.   Or rather - ...

So there it is. Know your rights ... Skip the lawyer – none is needed. Know the result – life or death ...

But - what if the situation is entirely from within ourselves? What if something happens in our own little "world" - with no influence from outside - really messes up everything we thought we believed in? What happens when we're left only asking God - "Why"? We keep asking. We ...

Lord, you have been our dwelling place.  Moses wrote that in Psalm 90.  It's from the very first verse. Ps 90:1 Lord, you have been our dwelling place throughout all generations. But wait.  This is part 2 of a series about "The End". Why are we looking at the beginning?  Well, ...