Looking Back 
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Looking Back 

If we always look into the past instead of moving forward, we may feel anger, hurt, and bitterness about the life we expected to have but don't. Looking back at the past when God tells us precisely to move on could harden us, just like it did Lot's wife. We might feel that betrayal and bitterness continue to grow if we keep looking back. It hardens us.

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God Reigns Supreme
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God Reigns Supreme

I think chaos is still a problem in the world. As Timothy K. Beal pointed out in his book Religion and It’s Monsters, “Perhaps it takes a chaos monster to kill a chaos monster.” Beal describes the way monsters are lurking in the biblical texts, put there by God himself. Did God create chaos, or did it come because of the fall?

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Voices
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Voices

Voices from everywhere, Tell me what’s what.They say what I should think,Some tell me what I should not

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Your Story Matters. Part 2
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Your Story Matters. Part 2

Last week, I told you about the man who asked, “What’s Your Story?” I want to tell you about when he asked me the same question.

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Be the Change
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Be the Change

Someone's mother taught us: “If you can’t say something nice, don’t say it at all, in other words, don’t speak!”

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