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Jun.04.2013
I was asked this morning by one of my Facebook friends from Australia, “Steve, what’s a Twinkie?”
At first, I thought he was joking. Who does not know, and miss, the Hostess Twinkie?
He wasn’t joking. He really wanted to know, as he had only ever heard of them but had never eaten or enjoyed...
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Dec.16.2012
" A voice was heard in Ramah, wailing and loud lamentation, Rachel weeping for her children; she refused to be consoled, because they are no more."~ Jeremiah
December 28th is traditionally celebrated on the Christian calendar as the Feast Day of the Holy Innocents.
On this day the Church remembers...
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Dec.01.2012
According to Albertus Magnus, aka ‘Albert the Great’, teacher to Thomas Aquinas. , asserts the following:
By reminiscence, sense, and imagination, the intellect proceeds from potentiality to actuality. When it acquires scientia (knowledge) it is the intellectus adeptus, (acquired intellect...
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Oct.30.2012
Have you every wanted to slip into the minds and bodies of Biblical characters? Do you yearn to breathe and fully experience scripture and the impact of Christ's presence? Now, you, the avid reader of all things faith-oriented, have the opportunity to do just this.
Anita Higman's recent...
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Sep.29.2012
On September 23, 1991, the pediatric nurse walked down the well lit hallway of Children’s Hospital in Oakland, California. I slept in the waiting room awaiting the approval to enter the ICU room to see our two year old...
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Aug.20.2012
Ladies and Gentlemen,
The time is now for us as lovers of Christ to stand up and step into our annointing, our positions, our purpose and callings. Let your intimate relationship with God through Christ push you into the part you play in expanding the kingdom of God in the earth. It's already done...
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Aug.16.2012
If you have given your heart to Christ (and many Christians have not!), you are, right now, a citizen of heaven. You move in the presence of Christ, who sits at the right hand of God.
What does that mean for the average Joe (which I like to consider myself)? It means that we have to realize...
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Jun.19.2012
An iconoclast is "a breaker of icons or images" or "one who attacks cherished beliefs as shams", so says my very old yet reliable Webster's Collegiate Dictionary. Anyone who opposes the religious use of images would be an iconoclast. An icon is an "image or representation". An example of a...
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May.17.2012
"Do right to the widow, judge for the fatherless, give to the poor, defend the orphan, clothe the naked. Heal the broken and the weak, laugh not a lame man to scorn, defend the maimed, and let the blind man come into the sight of my clearness."
- God the
Giver of Values
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May.15.2012
I'm getting frustrated with the church's public relations. I fear we're losing the war of public perception. Sin is becoming more accepted, like abortion, gay marriage and out-of-wedlock sex.
Churches, on the other hand, are being labeled as the bad guy, the oppressor, the evil judge.
Why? Because...
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