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Palm Sunday
This quote from Augustus Toplady was on the front of the church bulletin yesterday. “When Christ entered into Jerusalem, the people spread garments in the way: when He enters our hearts, we pull off our own righteousness, and not only lay it under Christ’s feet but even trample upon it…
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Yet I will….
Habakkuk 3 is Habakkuk’s response after being in the presence of the Lord. The genre of chapter 3 is unlike the previous two chapters. Both the language (the words employed) and the form (the way in which the words are put together) reflect the worshipful heart of Habakkuk.If you have…
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Lucy Pevense: A Shieldmaiden
I’ve been reading Planet Narnia by Michael Ward who in his book reveals the interpretive key of the Chronicles of Narnia. Prince Caspian, by his reckoning reflects and draws its symbolic meaning from the martial qualities and influence of Mars. Caspian is full of martial imagery, but what I find…
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Unfettered Scientific Research or Unregulated Capitalism
On any given day, you can open to the editorial page and see two kinds of cartoons. The first cartoon has to do with the money-grubbing-gangsters of greed who hedged and junked our way into the current economic crisis. You can see what some editorial cartoonists are saying about banks…
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"I will look to see what he will say to me."
C.S. Lewis as he worked through the grief of losing his wife, Joy, to cancer, wrote the following, Meanwhile, where is God? This is one of the most disquieting symptoms. When you are happy, so happy that you have no sense of needing Him, so happy that you are tempted…
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