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Just “Say No” to Approval
manifesto: {n} a written statement declaring publicly the intentions, motives, or views of its issuer. Manifesto comes from the Italian word meaning denunciation, which is most easily defined as to...
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Telling Stories {And a Great Story I Didn’t Write}
Stories are best when shared. That’s the generosity of the writer: to give the best, happiest, most tormenting, effective, persuasive version of a story. We lay our hearts on paper, keyboards and...
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Why Church? {A Glimpse Into Community}
Anyone who’s been around the Sunday School circuit a season or two has been taught about the amazing birth of the Church in Acts 2. We read Peter’s compelling sermon — oh yes, that same Peter who was...
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3 Things I Learned About Life From A Writer’s Conference
It is a sight to see, all those self-proclaimed introverts and book nerds chatting it up. And for this introvert, there’s a bit of a homecoming whenever I step through the doors of the Inland...
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Six Steps to Victory {How to Outsmart the Prowling Lion, the Devil}
I’ve been thinking about that old lion lately. The one that prowls and scans the crowds, his insatiable hunger salivating, dripping as he looks for the perfect prey. The perfectly easy-to-pick-off...
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From Disneyland to Duck Dynasty: Our Obsession with “Real”
I sat in the hydraulic chair in the well-decorated salon, under the glare of halogen lights and surrounded by walls painted earthy shades of gray and brick red and dried-leaf brown. My roots glared...
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What Clips Your Wings? {or, yelling at God}
What clips your wings? My youngest boy brought home an application to be a class representative in student body government, his first foray into leadership, politics, into submitting himself to the...
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We are not raising a generation of helpless kids. We are raising a generation...
Are we raising a generation of helpless kids? My answer is a resounding – NO! Not any more than our parents or the parents of our parents did! I am in touch with a nice cross-section of 9-29 year olds...
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The Advent Fulfilled: Because God is Bit Like Clark Griswold
I hustled the ladder near the front of the house, as close to the windows as possible. Gathering the twinkle lights and the garland of fake pine, stepping around the see-sawing penguins in Santa hats,...
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The Advent Fulfilled: The Beginning of the All People Society, of which I am...
LUKE 2:10 And the angel said unto them, Fear not: for, behold, I bring you good tidings of great joy, which shall be to all people. All people. The angel said it. The singular message of the...
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When Your Story is a Dumb, Sob-Story {How to Handle Harsh}
He called my story a sob story. That would make me the “sob-ber” –not really attractive. He then proceeded to call my story and how I told it –dumb. Three times dumb, said he. And it cut a little,...
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The Best Way to Find Balance
Simon Peter replied, “Lord, to whom would we go? You have the words that give eternal life. {John 6:68} When I was a girl, there were only a few Princesses in movies. Snow White, the animal loving,...
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25 Gifts-Why Jesus? (Advent 2014, Day 13)
Jesus himself was, of course, one man. He came as any prophet had: out of obscurity, preaching a message of warning and of hope to the Israelite people. His human life ended like most the other...
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Running on Grace
You guys, I RAN! Today! In the middle of my two-mile walk to the end of picturesque Cherry Lane, I picked up my sneakered feet and started running! And kept on running! A whole Quarter Mile. I heard...
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