“When you set yourself on fire, people love to come and see you burn.” –John Wesley Think about the early stages of a relationship. You spend time getting to know each other, constantly thinking of new things to share or new things to learn. Rarely do you even want to be apart from your
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The person without the Spirit does not accept the things that come from the Spirit of God but considers them foolishness, and cannot understand them because they are discerned only through the Spirit. 1 Corinthians 2:14 When I was a senior in high school, my parents took my older sister and I on a
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“Jesus never said He’d eliminate all of the confusion from our lives; He just promised He’d bring meaning to it.” – Bob Goff Why is it that so many people, both Christians and non-Christians alike seem to have these ideas that once we turn our lives over to Christ, all of our problems will
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Take what you want, says God to man. Take it, and pay for it. –Spanish proverb I’ve found this proverb a useful antidote to two common illusions that I encounter in myself and in other people. First, there’s the assumption that we don’t have real choices, that we can’t really take what we want, that
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“It takes a noble man to plant a seed for a tree that will someday give shade to people he may never meet.” D. Elton Trueblood (1900-1994); We do not know what will happen in the future. No matter what we think, how we prepare, or what types of theories surround us, the reality is,
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