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A list of gospel lists

by J. Randal Matheny, editor Some people like lists, and some like alliteration. In today’s article I offer a little of both. Some are based on a Bible verse, others are topical. As far as I know,...

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Phantom faith

by Sean Ashberry You’ve probably felt it. It’s that familiar tickle or vibration on your side that indicates when you have an incoming phone call or have received a text or email. On most phones it’s...

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Does God have body parts?

by Mike Benson It is a $100 word. Anthropomorphism. It is difficult to enunciate; it is even more challenging to understand. The word is a combination of the Greek anothropos, meaning human and...

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The Holy Father and resignation

by Richard Mansel, managing editor In 2005, Karol Wojtyla, Pope John Paul II, died and Joseph Ratzinger took his place, calling himself Pope Benedict XVI. Eight years later, Ratzinger resigned as the...

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The amazing focus of God

by Richard Mansel, managing editor Countless great ideas have come from the minds of man, only to have them derailed due to circumstances beyond their control or because of the frailties of others....

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God and the world

God and the world are diametrically opposed to each other. But how can something that God created represent opposition to his nature and will? Evil exists, but it did not always exist. It came into...

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Truth and consequences

by Stan Mitchell “I am the way, the truth and the life” (John 14:6). We live in a time when truth should be up with the whales and bald eagles on the Sierra Club calendar–listed as an endangered...

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Father in Heaven

by Mike Benson I will speak for me. I probably need to spend more time thinking about what I’m actually saying in my private prayers. “Father in heaven…” If I am not very careful, the phrase may...

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Is it true that with God nothing is impossible?

Jesus compared the difficulty of a rich man entering the kingdom to a camel going through the eye of a needle (Matthew 19:23-24). The disciples asked, “Who then can be saved?” (Matthew 19:25, NKJV)....

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Hope

Enduring incredibly difficult situations is nothing new. Yet, one seems insufferable. Trying to live without hope. It is when life seems darkest, we need to remember who our God is.  God is not limited...

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What God do you serve?

Do you remember the scene in The Avengers Assemble when Loki was growing tired of having to fight the Avengers and in particular the Hulk? He stopped fighting, held up his arms, and said, “Enough! You...

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What do you see?

A London merchant and the poet William Blake watched the sun rise up out of the sea. The bright, yellow disk revealed itself, gilding the water, and painting the sky with a thousand colors. “What do...

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When God sings

When the beloved James told happy saints to sing, James 5.13, perhaps he instructed them to do this because that is what God does. The Lord your God is in your midst, a mighty one who will save; he...

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The two greatest commands

During the week leading up to Jesus’ crucifixion, he was almost daily teaching people, usually in the temple. One day in particular seems to have been very busy as one group after another came to Jesus...

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God’s surprising inclusion and exclusion

Few biblical stories challenge both exclusive and inclusive perspectives. Yet a story exists revealing how God can be pleased with the spiritual activities of the lost, while simultaneously excluding...

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No physical remains

A couple traveled recently to another continent and toured a famous religious building, still under construction after almost 100 years. They were awed by the edifice, which used new techniques for the...

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True north: finding a reliable path forward

A compass points toward the earth’s magnetic north. However, the true geographic north pole lies several hundreds of miles away. Kenny, a friend of mine, recently told me about an international trip...

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What a great God we serve!

While Paul was in Athens waiting for his companions, it gave him a chance to look around the city. What he saw disturbed him! There were shrines to virtually any false god you could think of, complete...

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The God who walks

The holy prophets ridiculed idolators by noting all the things their idols could not do. They couldn’t even perform the basic actions of normal people, much less work godlike wonders. They had to be...

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Fear – it could save your life

If society, culture and the church could just move past feeling fear, anger and pain, we would all be better off, right? If everybody could only be positive and happy all of the time, our lives would...

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