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If God doesn't want something for me, I shouldn't want it either. Spending time in meditative prayer, getting to know God, helps…
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Prayer is to the skeptic a delusion, a waste of time. To the believer it represents perhaps the most important use of…
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Some who attempt prayer never have the sense of anyone listening on the other end. They blame themselves for doing it wrong....…
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Prayer may seem at first like disengagement, a reflective time to consider God's point of view. But that vantage presses us back…
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Jesus reserved his hardest words for the hidden sins of hypocrisy, pride, greed and legalism.
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Like all good things, prayer requires some discipline. Yet I believe that life with God should seem more like friendship than duty.…
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Faith in God offers no insurance against tragedy.
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Any discussion of how pain and suffering fit into God's scheme ultimately leads back to the cross.
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In the move The Last Emperor, the young child anointed as the last emperor of China lives a magical life of luxury…
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The Cross of Christ may have overcome evil, but it did not overcome unfairness. For that, Easter is required.
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We're concerned with how things turn out; God seems more concerned with how we turn out.
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For me, the world of nature bears spectacular witness to the imaginative genius of our Creator.
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My wife heard me say I love you a thousand times, but she never once heard me say sorry.
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