You’ve heard that expression and you know it speaks to the cost of obtaining something of value. Athletes have to develop and train their bodies and minds to achieve victory. Soldiers have to learn how to work as team, taking and following orders.
What ails you? What gets in your way? What confuses and confounds you? What scares you? What do you need? What do you want?
What if the answers to all these questions could be reduced to one question with one answer?
What’s a Galatian? Someone from Galatia, which was an area in the highlands of Anatolia, and Anatolia, is now the territory of modern Turkey. It’s also important to note that the ancient Galatians were a Gentile community; that is when the people of Galatia embraced the Gospel, they didn’t bring the experience of practicing Jews with them.
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G’Day Mate. This is an expression that Australians use to greet one another. It’s a way of wishing one another well while affirming a shared experience of relaxed culture. At least that’s how I interpret it.
This is a line from a nursery rhyme entitled, “Mary, Mary, Quite Contrary” that was first published in the 18th century. The poem’s meaning and its subject are debated but the question regarding the garden’s growth sticks in my mind and lends itself to the focus of this website.
How Does Your Garden Grow? Read More »
We’re fascinated by love; it’s part of what drives us in our quest for life: the desire to survive, to succeed, to gain, to make progress almost certainly includes obtaining a relationship with someone; hopefully the right one.
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“It’s good for what ails you.” That’s the Gospel, the message of the Christ addressing the needs of all people everywhere, throughout time.
What do you think of when you hear that phrase, maybe a magic act or a sleight-of-hand card trick?
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Do you remember saying this to your parents when you were a preschooler on a long trip? You were too young to read a map, or if you could read, you couldn’t match what the map said with what you could see out the car window.
I heard a pastor recently give a caricature of prayer from the pulpit. He suggested that people tend to have a simplistic approach to prayer that combined an acknowledgement of God’s presence with a presentation of their current needs.
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