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Lately I've been enjoying the song "Bruises", by Train. It's a sweet song, a dialogue between old friends who cross paths after ten years and reflect back on their past relationships and experiences, many of which have left bruises. The song strikes an optimistic note about how these bruises "make ...
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When the angels had left them and gone into heaven, the shepherds said to one another, “Let’s go to Bethlehem and see this thing that has happened, which the Lord has told us about.” So they hurried off and found Mary and Joseph, and the baby, who was lying in ...
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"The Word became flesh and made his dwelling among us."John 1:14"...we do not have a high priest who is unable to empathize with our weaknesses, but we have one who has been tempted in every way, just as we are—yet he did not sin. Let us then approach God’s throne ...
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I am haunted by this news story:A boy is dead who didn't have to die, and a man has killed, who might not have had to kill.While I generally support the idea of concealed-carry permits, I have grave reservations over whether John Q. Public always understands what it means to measure ...
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If the following *quotations don't create some kind of deep emotional response within you, I don't know what would:"The most powerful men at Penn State failed to take any steps for fourteen years to protect the children Sandusky victimized.""In order to avoid the consequences of bad publicity, the most powerful ...
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I'm a Christian who struggles with prayer.Don't get me wrong; it's not that I don't want to pray, or don't like to pray. I love the intimacy with God that is found in prayer, and I desperately want it in my life every day. But I often catch myself gliding through ...
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You've probably heard the news story about the group of middle school students who have drawn worldwide attention for throwing trash into one of the reflecting pools when they visited the 9/11 Memorial on a field trip. Apparently, the facts as reported in the media are true, as the students' principal ...