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Tis the Season: For Things Better Left Unsaid?

December 23, 2009 Baby Photos
Well Hush

You remember the other day when I was talking about how I think sometimes it’s good to point out that something is a big, fat, yucky lie? Well I was mulling over another one I thought I’d share with you. Please let me know what you think. Someone once told me … like ages and ages [...]

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Does this Church make my butt look big?

October 22, 2009 South Africa
Oh, Church!

After arriving in the country, Mark and I began the difficult task of trying to find a church to call home. It’s really really strange to suddenly feel like you’re “church-hopping” when two months ago we staff members at a church back in Scotland. During our explorations so far, we had a good experience at [...]

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Gun Control and Swordsmanship

October 17, 2009 South Africa
Image by rbeforee @ flickr

How do you feel about gun control? Or having weapons in the home in case someone breaks in? Mark and I had some interesting conversations about these issues with some friends while we were home in the States. (Thanks, Frank & Sharon!) Mark was pondering the idea of needing a weapon in the home since [...]

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A Top Ten from the Heart of God

June 12, 2009 Scotland

After a good chat with a friend of mine who’s going through a hard time, I started thinking about some of the things I think the Lord might like to say to her, to speak to her heart in the place where she is right now. I thought it might be something a lot of [...]

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Everybody wants to go to heaven…but nobody wants to die.

June 1, 2009 Stories

Have you ever heard this song?  I was thinking about it this morning for some reason. It’s been remade on a David Crowder Band CD, but Alison Krauss sang it before that… not sure where it came from honestly. As I was pondering that popping into my head, I realised how incredibly true that statement [...]

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"It's in the Bible" Top Ten

April 30, 2009 The Good Word

Being from the American South, I’m intimately acquainted with cultural Christianity — the kind of Christianity that makes people feel sure they are Christians because they’ve been going to church all their lives and they don’t drink much.  One particularly interesting thing about the development of this type of ‘cultural Christianity’ is the development, along [...]

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"God Bless Me and My Bank Account"

March 16, 2009 Baby Photos
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In Matthew 10, Jesus has a really special heart-to-heart with the disciples where He begins to tell them what they can expect in the future.  He specifically predicts trouble for them, but He also prescribes counsel and comfort in reference to the trouble they should expect. Although this might scare some folks away from following [...]

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