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To Crave

I love words and adopt a favorite almost monthly. My latest word is crave. I almost always crave food.
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Spying On God

I remember when I learned to “spy the hand of God” in my life. I had learned four ways to become aware of God’s presence while teaching an adult Sunday School videotape series, which I also sold...
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Show Love Instead

It follows us wherever we go, like a shadow. It’s there when we wake up first thing in the morning and there again when we lay our head on the pillow at night to fall asleep.
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Radical Love In Radical Community

In a 2020 survey by the Pew Research Center, respondents who think Christianity’s influence is declining were asked to assess whether each of a variety of factors has been a major cause, minor...
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Cross My Heart

When I was a child, we would clasp each other’s pinky fingers together and then yank them away to guarantee we would do what we had said.
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The Highest Form Of Love

If you’ve attended a wedding before, odds are you’ve heard the famous love passage from 1 Corinthians 13. It starts like this, “Love is patient, love is kind…” and then goes on for several...
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Coming Together

Every teacher knows May brings challenges to the classroom with warmer temperatures and the promise of summer drawing near. My students’ end-of-year behavior started early this year, and I knew our...
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Take The Pizza Test

It has been almost 30 years, and I just found out that my wife doesn’t like mushrooms, especially on pizza. I also realized that day that I hadn’t ordered mushrooms on pizza for about three...