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Recently we’ve been discussing spiritual warfare at my church. Anytime this topic is broached, it seems, you always land in Ephesians 6 to discuss the armor of God. Certainly you don’t have to limit yourself to these verses to have a conversation or a sermon about it, but you definitely ...
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Would you join me on a trip down memory lane today? When I was two or so, my dad left a ladder leaning up against the house. He came inside for supper. Soon both he and my mom started looking for me. They went outside and there I was. On ...
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This is an ongoing series of fiction. You can find all the chapters at my Fiction page. David stood before the congregation with more than a little bit of nervousness. Most studies listed public speaking as the number one fear for most people. He wouldn’t say that it was he ...
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Jesus said some things that on the surface seem outlandish. Crazy. Insane. For example, when he is told his mother and brothers have shown up to see Him, He responded by saying that those around Him who do the will of the Father were his brother and sister and mother. ...
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When I mentioned last week that I was changing the way I approached blogging, I received quite a bit of positive feedback. Many of you were extremely positive about this move. One of those was my friend, Ricky Anderson. He tweeted to me, “A fine change, Larry. Relieved to not ...
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It seems like Seth Godin set off quite the thought process amongst those of us who happen to write blogs. He wrote a piece called THOSE People a few days ago that you can refer to here. Clay Morgan wrote one entitled THOSE People as well. Since those two wrote ...
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Today is the last day of Deuceology as you know it. Everything that you have known over the last couple of years is changing after today. I am scaling back to three regular posts each week, with Saturday remaining the day that I post fiction. Let me explain. I am ...
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My friend, Jon Acuff, wrote a post recently about not being typical. That is one of the themes that those of us who like Jon hear. He encourages his readers and listeners to not settle for average and typical. Why? It takes, as he puts it, 10,000 to become an ...
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Is it wrong for a Christian to dream? Or to put it another way, is it wrong for a Christian to pursue their dream? The easy answer to this would be to say no and move on. Of course it isn’t wrong for a Christian to dream. Where would we ...
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During World War II, C.S. Lewis gave a series of talks on BBC radio. These were later transcribed and compiled into the book we now know as Mere Christianity. In these talks and book, Lewis attempted to boil our faith down into what is common between everyone who claims to ...