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What is fun for you?
Doing good things that please God?
Or doing things that don’t?
The Bible says that God sees all we do and say.
If what we do or what we say is enjoyable to Him, we’re good to go spiritually.
The reverse is true, of course.
Here’s a concise […]

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We’ve all seen the cartoon drawings of an ostrich hiding its head in the sand and we’ve thought “How foolish.”
If only we’d never been as that ostrich when it came to our attempts to hide from accountability for poor choices.
Oh well. There’s always the opportunity for improvement.
I’m reminded of how Adam tried to hide […]

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Let’s avoid the trap of thinking we’ve got plenty of time clean up our spiritual act before “the parents come home.”
You know the setting.
Teens doing things at home that teens shouldn’t do, thinking that Mom and Dad won’t be home for a couple of hours.
But then the door opens and the “Oh no!” feelings […]

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Some things about our Christian faith are really fulfilling and even thrilling.
These are what I call the “magnets of faith.”
But there are a few other things, however, that are far from being magnets.
They’re actually more like fender-bending guardrails.
They’re designed to keep us from driving off the cliff spiritually.
They’re not endearing.
But they are essential.
A segment in […]

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I spent more than a few winters in Indiana and that required dealing at times with icy, slippery roads.
Invariably, driving on such roads meant passing a car or two that had slidden into a ditch or onto a sidewalk.
I didn’t experience such a misfortune because I always kept my eyes on the road, hands on […]

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