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How Strangers Become Friends
There’s been a lot of talk about friendship because of Facebook and the internet. You can collect friends and “likes” and begin to feel pretty good about yourself, depending on how many you accumulate... -
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Communication Breakdown
As a stranger walked down a quiet residential street, he noticed a man struggling with a washing machine at the doorway of his house. The homeowner was clearly having a hard time, so the passerby, wan... -
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Stories of Hospitality from Ancient Cultures
A Catholic priest recently told a gathering of friends about a time when he arrived in Israel late on a Friday afternoon, just as everything was about to shut down for the Sabbath. Public transportati... -
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A Lovely Disarray
There is a lovely disarray that comes with attraction. When you find yourself deeply attracted to someone, you gradually begin to lose your grip on the frames that order your life. Indeed, much of you... -
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The Sly Farmer
A canny Maine farmer was approached by a stranger one day and asked how much he thought his prize Jersey cow was worth. The farmer thought for a moment, looked the stranger over, then said: “Are you t... -
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Where are the Nails?
St. Martin of Tours was a Frankish soldier in the Roman army who abandoned his military post to follow Jesus at a time when Christianity had only begun to take root in France. He later became the bish... -
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Tearing Down and Building up in the Kingdom
Since Jesus isn’t attached to the same things we are, he can take the God-view, which is about more than redeeming our individual lives. God means to redeem the world, which is going to require some m... -
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Henry Ford Is Taken In
Henry Ford Sr. the car magnate, having already become massively wealthy, had decided to visit Cork, Ireland, the hometown from which his father had emigrated to the states. Upon arrival, he was warmly... -
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Defining Perfectionism
The word perfect comes from the Latin perficere, per (complete) and ficere (do). Something considered perfect is that which is completely done; it exists in a state of completion, wholeness, perfectio... -
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The Thrill of Being Right
Why is it so fun to be right? As pleasures go, it is, after all, a second-order one at best. Unlike many of life’s other delights—chocolate, surfing, kissing—it does not enjoy any mainline access to o... -
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Our Fascination with Descents
Descents are everywhere. From Hercules and Orpheus venturing into Hades, to Harry Potter following the pipes down into the Chamber of Secrets, to the Sheriff and Joyce Byers frantically searching for ... -
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Who Should Minister to the Suffering?
A Chinese Christian who heard me speak once asked me if I would write a tract about suffering for his fellow believers in the Orient. I told him I would think about it. But when I did, I realized that... -
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Home: A Desire for Permanence
Before Seattle resident Edith Macefield died at age eighty-six in 2008, she refused to sell her house to developers for the $1 million they had purportedly offered. Macefield wanted to die at home. Se... -
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A Time to Lament
In a time of acute crisis, when death sneaks into houses and shops, when you may feel healthy yourself but you may be carrying the virus without knowing it, when every stranger on the street is a thre... -
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The Adoption of the Grinch
How the Grinch Stole Christmas by Dr. Seuss could be seen as a story of adoption. In the end, the Grinch leaves his cave, takes off his disguise, makes restitution, and opens himself to a new place an... -
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Incarnating the Gospel
What does it look like to incarnate the gospel in our lives? Dawn Husnick, whom Scot McKnight describes as having had some “tough years with alcohol, failed personal relationships, and depression, fou... -
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The Umbrella
Several years ago I read an article about Queen Mary, who made it her practice to visit Scotland every year. She was so loved by the people there that she often mingled with them freely without a prot... -
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Our Problem
Dear Everybody, We have a serious problem: All of us think we’re good people. But Jesus says we’re not. Sincerely, Brant P. Hansen …PS. IF YOU THINK I’M WRONG—about how we think we’re good people... -
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Cruciform Love
Cruciform love is welcoming the immigrant simply because they bear the image of God, even if the only thing they bring to us is hassle and possible harm. Cruciform love is praying for those who persec... -
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The Primary Problem of Marriage
Destructive to marriage is the self-fulfillment ethic that assumes marriage and the family are primarily institutions of personal fulfillment, necessary for us to become “whole” and happy. The assumpt... -
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Christian Character Defined: John Stott
As a study assistant to the Anglican pastor and writer John Stott during my early years as a believer, I witnessed John’s faithfulness in public and private, as a highly visible speaker and as a nearl... -
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Love Self, Brethren, and Strangers
Scripture calls us to offer a radical welcome to strangers, but we are not able to give what we do not have. Before we can love our neighbor, we must love and care for ourselves so we can have somethi... -
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Strangers to Themselves
There is not any thing, relating to men and characters, more surprising and unaccountable, than this partiality to themselves. . . . Hence it is that many men seem perfect strangers to their own chara... -
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Getting to Know You
I have a little game I play when traveling. I regularly hear strangers meeting strangers, and usually within thirty seconds to a minute one asks the other, “What do you do?” Well, when someone asks me... -
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Betting on Jesus
We didn’t have a lot of rules [at the food pantry at St. Gregory, an Episcopal congregation in San Francisco]. You could be a drunk or junkie, but you couldn’t volunteer if you were high. You couldn’t... -
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We Wander the Internet Because We Lack God's Presence
We’re little children wandering the aisles of the internet because we’ve lost the presence of our loving parent. We are desperate for the attention of a good Father who sees us. We have no idea how to... -
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Joy With Flesh On
I have a photo of one of my children: on a day of pure sunshine, he is running down the hillside, leading with his chest, his smile and stride wide as his speed picks up. Running is pure delight. Agai... -
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Desperate for Attention
We’re little children wandering the aisles of the internet because we’ve lost the presence of our loving parent. We are desperate for the attention of a good Father who sees us. We have no idea how to... -
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The Good News Isn’t Sounding Good to Some
In Vanishing Grace , Philip Yancey examines the growing negative perceptions of evangelicals. Although the book was written in 2014, these dynamics have only intensified in the era of MAGA and Ch... -
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Turning from Conflict to Conversion
Maltbie D. Babcock, author of This Is My Father’s World and a Presbyterian pastor in Brooklyn, introduced a free pew system in his church, upsetting a wealthy woman who found strangers in her us...
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- Taking A Leap Of Faith (10)
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- The Wild (8)
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Search by Reference
Genesis
- Gen 1 (109)
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Exodus
- Exod 1 (8)
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- Exod 35 (5)
- Exod 40 (2)
Leviticus
Numbers
Deuteronomy
1 Samuel
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1 Kings
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1 Chronicles
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Nehemiah
Job
Psalm
- Ps 1 (27)
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- Ps 50 (5)
- Ps 51 (50)
- Ps 52 (1)
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Proverbs
- Prov 1 (7)
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- Prov 3 (96)
- Prov 4 (34)
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- Prov 11 (23)
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- Prov 13 (8)
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- Prov 16 (49)
- Prov 17 (31)
- Prov 18 (38)
- Prov 19 (28)
- Prov 20 (9)
- Prov 21 (13)
- Prov 22 (30)
- Prov 23 (4)
- Prov 24 (9)
- Prov 25 (13)
- Prov 26 (10)
- Prov 27 (30)
- Prov 28 (12)
- Prov 29 (11)
- Prov 30 (5)
- Prov 31 (31)
Ecclesiastes
Song of Solomon
Isaiah
- Isa 1 (40)
- Isa 2 (7)
- Isa 5 (6)
- Isa 6 (38)
- Isa 7 (10)
- Isa 9 (35)
- Isa 11 (8)
- Isa 12 (2)
- Isa 14 (4)
- Isa 21 (1)
- Isa 25 (8)
- Isa 26 (19)
- Isa 28 (7)
- Isa 29 (6)
- Isa 30 (44)
- Isa 32 (3)
- Isa 33 (4)
- Isa 35 (5)
- Isa 37 (1)
- Isa 40 (92)
- Isa 41 (39)
- Isa 42 (20)
- Isa 43 (53)
- Isa 44 (6)
- Isa 45 (14)
- Isa 46 (5)
- Isa 47 (2)
- Isa 48 (9)
- Isa 49 (16)
- Isa 50 (4)
- Isa 51 (2)
- Isa 52 (3)
- Isa 53 (72)
- Isa 54 (6)
- Isa 55 (90)
- Isa 56 (4)
- Isa 57 (8)
- Isa 58 (47)
- Isa 59 (7)
- Isa 60 (10)
- Isa 61 (31)
- Isa 62 (1)
- Isa 64 (17)
- Isa 65 (11)
- Isa 66 (5)
- Isa 85 (1)
Jeremiah
Lamentations
Ezekiel
Daniel
Joel
Obadiah
Nahum
Habakkuk
Zephaniah
Malachi
Matthew
- Matt 1 (21)
- Matt 2 (35)
- Matt 3 (11)
- Matt 4 (54)
- Matt 5 (172)
- Matt 6 (180)
- Matt 7 (84)
- Matt 8 (12)
- Matt 9 (19)
- Matt 10 (34)
- Matt 11 (55)
- Matt 12 (21)
- Matt 13 (38)
- Matt 14 (26)
- Matt 15 (11)
- Matt 16 (42)
- Matt 17 (8)
- Matt 18 (68)
- Matt 19 (21)
- Matt 20 (17)
- Matt 21 (21)
- Matt 22 (30)
- Matt 23 (54)
- Matt 24 (20)
- Matt 25 (95)
- Matt 26 (22)
- Matt 27 (12)
- Matt 28 (39)








