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Discernment: What’s Your Schema
How do you truly know God’s will? It starts by dismantling the invisible mental blueprints shaping your daily thoughts. Instead of climbing worldly hierarchies of status, intellect, or power, true discernment flips the script entirely. Are you ready to trade the world’s ladder for a servant’s perspective?
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What Is Biblical Literacy?
We complain about it, write about it, claim it’s important or even critical, design programs to create it, but what is it? I don’t mean that none of us know what we mean when we say “biblically literate” or “biblically illiterate,” but do we all mean the same thing? I don’t think we do, and […]
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Fences: Mending or Rending
The following is a sermon I presented at the Unitarian-Universalist Church of Pensacola on September 11,2005 and originally posted here on September 13, 2005. I’m reposting it because when I went to look for it, I found that the original post had somehow been truncated, and also because there is a one word at a […]
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Experiencing the (Baptism of the) Holy Spirit
This is a topic where I tend to make just about everyone uncomfortable. Long time readers may recall a previous discussion of speaking in tongues, and my own experience of it. Those who expect me to be intellectually oriented and rational are uncomfortable with mystical experiences, and many who are comfortable with the mystical experiences […]
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Have you ever noticed that posts that start with “THIS IS HUGE” rarely are?
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A mic drop is rarely as impressive to those who oppose you as it seems to you. (Image: ID 75924933 @ Rik57 | Dreamstime.com).
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I recently posted a moderate review of The Passion Translation. Readers of that review should also consider this new information published in Christianity Today.
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Most “mic drops” just aren’t.
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All in God’s Hands
The moment I say “It’s all in God’s hands now” is the moment I realize it always was.
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“No need to talk about what is past …” A great short article in Christianity Today.
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Watch the dates of news stories shared on social media. Some “events” are making the rounds multiple times as though the news was new, giving the impression of more of the same.
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The perfect is the enemy of the good. Friends frequently remind me of this and I agree. But lowered standards are also the enemy of the good.
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Black History Month deals are available on Bookshop.org, https://bookshop.org/info/black-history-month
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There is virtue in remaining silent when you have insufficient evidence to be certain of your facts.
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Discernment: What’s Your Schema
How do you truly know God’s will? It starts by dismantling the invisible mental blueprints shaping your daily thoughts. Instead of climbing worldly hierarchies of status, intellect, or power, true discernment flips the script entirely. Are you ready to trade the world’s ladder for a servant’s perspective?
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Lamentations 1:21 – Let Them Suffer Like Me!
We love to preach forgiveness, but when betrayal cuts deep, do we secretly crave vengeance? Admitting our darkest instincts is uncomfortable, yet pretending they don’t exist keeps the cycle alive. Discover why honest lament is the only real path to justice and freedom from past pain.
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Lamentations 1:20 – Look at Me
When life falls apart, we naturally ask, “Lord, do you see my pain?” But is our suffering always undeserved, or are we simply reaping what we’ve sown? Discover why misattributing our struggles can trap us in victimhood—and how honest self-reflection opens the door to real, lasting transformation.
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Lamentations 1:19 – Connections
19 ‘I called to my lovers,but they let me down;my priests and my eldersperished in the citywhile seeking foodto keep themselves alive. The Revised English Bible (Cambridge; New York; Melbourne; Madrid; Cape Town; Singapore; São Paulo; Delhi; Dubai; Tokyo: Cambridge University Press, 1996), La 1:19. Sometimes I meditate on these passages for a long time before […]
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Scrolling Your Way to Falsehood
In cybersecurity, “Zero Trust” keeps hackers out—so why are you letting social media trick your brain? From deceptive phishing emails to addictive doomscrolling and outrage-baiting feeds, passive consumption is costing us big. Are you truly in control of what you read, or are you scrolling straight into falsehood?
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Lamentations 1:18: I Was Wrong
Before you can fix a broken plan, you have to admit it isn’t working. Whether wrestling with complex AI code or navigating personal choices, stubbornness only digs a deeper hole. Uncover why acknowledging error is the ultimate gateway to real progress—and how to finally pivot toward success.
