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How to Lead an Adult Sunday School Class
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Read more: How to Lead an Adult Sunday School ClassDon’t Panic So you’ve been asked to lead an adult Sunday School class or Bible study and you don’t know where to begin. Or maybe just to fill in for a week for the usual leader. Or maybe you’ve heard that still, small voice that God uses to speak to us, and you think he…
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I Lost a Friend This Week
Read more: I Lost a Friend This WeekThis Can’t be Real Guys, some horrible news. Colin passed away. He had a heart attack last Monday. He was not treated until last Wednesday. He was released to fly home Monday. He died in flight. I stared at the message on the group chat. He died in flight. It didn’t even make sense. How…
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Never Enough – Men and the Stigma of Devastating Depression
Read more: Never Enough – Men and the Stigma of Devastating DepressionSpeaking out The Poet From my youth I have suffered and been close to death; I have borne your terrors and am in despair.Your wrath has swept over me; your terrors have destroyed me.All day long they surround me like a flood; they have completely engulfed me.You have taken from me friend and neighbor— darkness is my closest friend. What sort of man do you…
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Indian Chief’s Amazing Prophecy About the Bulletproof George Washington
Read more: Indian Chief’s Amazing Prophecy About the Bulletproof George WashingtonThe Prophecy Over five years before the Declaration of Independence was signed, an old Indian chief sought out George Washington and issued the following prophetic statement about the future leader of the United States: “I am old and soon shall be gathered to the great council fire of my fathers in the land of shades;…
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Did the First Christians Worship Jesus as God?
The Megiddo Mosaic
Read more: Did the First Christians Worship Jesus as God?Debate over Jesus’s Divinity Many religions deny the divinity of Jesus, claiming that he did not always exist. They may say that as the Son of God, he was created, and then assisted in the rest of creation. They may claim that he was an enlightened prophet. Atheists, of course, do not believe that Jesus…
The Megiddo Mosaic
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Courage and Fear, Strange Bedfellows
Embrace Failure Without Losing Enthusiasm
Read more: Courage and Fear, Strange BedfellowsOur all-county senior fullback accelerated through a huge gap in the line. The JV freshman linebacker stepped in to fill the hole. Balanced and on his toes, Don assumed perfect tackling position. The massive Daniels never slowed. The collision knocked Don tumbling. His helmet popped off his head, flying in another direction. As Daniels sauntered…
Embrace Failure Without Losing Enthusiasm
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Greatest Glee Club in History
Read more: Greatest Glee Club in HistoryHeavenly Host What exactly is a heavenly host of angels? Ten? A hundred? Thousands? Whenever Christmas season rolls around, and we hear the story of the angels announcing the birth of Jesus to the shepherds, I can’t help but wonder what the greatest glee club in history looked like and sounded like. Now that must…
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Should Socrates Have Drunk the Poison?
Read more: Should Socrates Have Drunk the Poison?Background Athens, Greece, 399BC Athens has suffered humiliating defeats at the hands of Sparta in the Peloponnesian War. Its citizens are struggling to maintain their identity and understand their place in the world. Socrates has angered the elites of Athens by his insistence on including folks from all walks of life in debates using the…
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How to Make Filet Mignon out of Humble Pie
Pitching at a writers conference
Read more: How to Make Filet Mignon out of Humble PieThe Pie I quadruple-checked my backpack. My folder. My paperwork and business cards. All there. I sat on my hand for a few seconds – didn’t want it to be either cold or sweaty when shaking hands. No way I was going to do something embarrassing for a third time. “Two-minutes warning for 10:15 appointments,”…
Pitching at a writers conference
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How to Cope with Rejection
Read more: How to Cope with Rejection“Dear Daniel,” the email preview read. “Thank you for your submission. Unfortunately…” Why did Outlook have to include the word unfortunately in its preview? I didn’t have to open the message to know it was a rejection. The literary agent had been so positive in our meeting. I thought I’d done everything right. I sent…
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