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The hate-trap is easier than you realize to fall into. I know many adults who have been deeply wounded in their formative years and now twenty, thirty, and even forty years later they’re so engrained with hate that it seems natural - almost part of their character. What does it look like? When someo...

There is a spiritual force that the Bible talks about called hope.  Without it, people quickly turn hostile. Don’t you mean hopeless Stephen?  Hopeless people turn hostile.  It could even be toward themself.  The Mayo Clinic says that self-injury, such as cutting or burning yourself, is a way that s...

I was talking with some friends recently about the crisis of identity the modern church finds herself in.  Jesus clearly talked about it when he told the parable of the ten virgins in Matthew 25.  He said that the Kingdom of Heaven is like ten virgins who are bridesmaids taking lamps to go meet the ...

When I was a kid, I thought Robin Hood was awesome. Imagine a hero out there robbing from all those bad, rich people, and giving to all those saintly poor people.  After all, my family and I were part of the ‘poor people’ group.  Any movies I saw with him he was always this kind, smiling, compassion...

One of the things that audiences have been able to count on for decades is that no matter what kind of trouble James Bond gets in, he always escapes. 007 never dies.  Well, something happened in real life that’s put a hole in that picture. 

Probably one of the greatest actors to ever play the chara...

It’s a go-to request for many Christians when you ask what they’d like prayer for in their life. “I’m just believing for God’s will in my life”, they say.  The thing I’ve found incredible and odd is how few of these people actually know what God’s will is for them.  Why would anyone request somethin...

There are national fast food chains that tell us “you can have it your way”.  The problem is, what if your way is not working?  Society right now is pushing overtime to persuade people to demand life their way.  Whether it’s in the educational system, entertainment networks, government, pop cultu...

Imagine buying a car, but it’s shared property with the whole town.  It would be pretty hard to count on a ride in the morning when it was time for work.  Now the payments are exclusively yours, but the use of it, well it’s only fair that you share, right?  Imagine that kind of arrangement with your...

Unity is such a peace, love, and harmony word, as opposed to ‘division’.  Division is one of those objective realities that parents instinctually feel compelled to correct out of their child’s behavior.  And yet strangely, it’s the very tool they use to keep their children from fighting with each...

It happened on a Sunday morning.  Mom got us three kids ready for church and out the door we went. About two and a half hours later we returned home and began the routine of getting changed out of our church clothes (yes, that was a thing when I was ten years old) and then lunch. As my habit was,...