Tag: christianity
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Emmanuel: God With Us
Luke 2:8-14—Now there were in the same country shepherds living out in the fields, keeping watch over their flock by night. And behold, an angel of the Lord stood before them, and the glory of the Lord shone around them, and they were greatly afraid. Then the angel said to them, “Do not be afraid,…
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Isaac Jogues: The Missionary Who Walked Back Into the Fire
The Thirty Years’ War was raging in Europe, fueling a near–cold-war divide between Protestant and Catholic powers. France, under Catholic monarchs like Louis XIII, was aggressively Counter-Reformationist, using the Jesuits as intellectual and spiritual shock troops to reclaim ground lost to Protestantism. Meanwhile, across the Atlantic, the New World was a chaotic frontier. French, English,…
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Dust to Dunamis
In God’s economy, there are no coincidences. The Ascension took place on the Mount of Olives, the very ground where Christ will one day set His feet again, as Zechariah 14:4 promises. Today, the Dome of the Ascension sits as a marker. The disciples never set out to make it a shrine or tourist site,…
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Wrath and Restoration
Ephesians 4:26 commands, “Be angry and do not sin.” The emotion itself is not sin; it can reflect a moral awareness of evil or injustice. Yet James 1:20 warns, “The anger of man does not produce the righteousness of God.” Human anger, when untethered from humility, fails miserably. It seeks revenge rather than redemption. Jesus…
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Overcome the world
John 16:33 : “I have told you these things so that in me you may have peace. In this world you will have trouble. But take heart! I have overcome the world.” I was speaking recently with a friend who does not yet know the Lord. and he poured out his heart about the troubles…
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DID GOD REALLY SAY? (Semantic Mimicry)
The words we use shape how we think, what we value, and then what we worship. When those words change in meaning, the morals of a culture drift with them.This process of what might be called semantic mimicry is both strategic and spiritual. Reusing words with moral or sacred weight lowers the barrier for acceptance.…
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I Thank The Lord
If I am sick or if I am well, thanks be to God, my soul will tell. If I am strong or if I am weak, thanks be to God in all I speak. When dogs bark and cars chase, when people die, when life feels like a race When dogs bark loud and the…
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The whole duty of man
It doesn’t take a lifetime of study, a degree, or a thousand books. Sometimes, just one moment, one phrase, one verse, one realization is enough to change everything. Paul was not uneducated or uninformed. In fact, he was the opposite. He was a scholar, a Pharisee, trained under Gamaliel (Acts 22:3), zealous for the Law,…
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A walk in the woods (shaupeneak ridge)
At the foot of Shaupeneak Ridge, before the climb begins, there is a field that rolls out like a great green sigh. Not flat, not orderly, but rumpled with small hills and dips as if the earth once shifted. Here where the ticks dance in the tall grass, before the trees gather to form the…
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it is not a political goal
Some accuse believers of being “Christian nationalists” simply for praying in public or affirming biblical truth. Others weaponize traditional values as if morality alone could redeem a nation. In both cases, the gospel is distorted. Christianity is not about identity politics, it’s about identity in Christ. It is not a tribal badge or cultural campaign.…
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