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Adventures in Yardwork
By Dean Lusk I hope you'll enjoy this blast from the past (originally posted in 2008): An appropriate subtitle for today's post is "Lessons in Stupidity." Some of you will read this post and think, "Oh, no he di'n't,"… -
Head in the Clouds
“Since, then, you have been raised with Christ, set your hearts on things above, where Christ is, seated at the right hand of God. Set your minds on things above, not on earthly things.'' Struggles in this life ar… -
Who Is Jesus? (Part Two)
Around age thirty, Yeshua had specifically sought out John to be baptized. "Baptize" is a transliteration of the Greek word meaning to submerge. The baptism is generally considered to be the start of his ministry. Submer… -
Am I a Temptress?
By Amy at Make Me a Mary I don’t watch TV, I don’t read the paper, and I really don’t even read the news online—so I had no idea that it was Fat Tuesday until I looked on Facebook. Good thing Fac… -
Dealing with Sin
By T.G. Blankenship at The Gethsemane Blog James 1:14-15 - But each person is tempted when he is lured and enticed by his own desire. Then desire when it has conceived gives birth to sin, and sin when it is fully g… -
The Desire to Be Attractive
I am a Christian woman; the only reason I have not said "godly" is because I feel like I would be bragging on myself if I said that. To be called a godly woman is a great honor, I believe. Anyway, I digress. Lately I… -
Is Drinking a Sin?
My parents and I just got into a huge fight about alcohol. I was trying to tell them that drinking is not a sin, but being drunk and letting the alcohol control your body is a sin. On the other hand, they were telling me… -
The Shaping & Reshaping of A Life: The Struggles of Purity and Pornography
I believe that every person begins this life as a clean slate; from birth to death, the story of our life is written out, not only by the decisions we make, but the influences, whether natural, environmental, social, or… -
Beware of Deep Spiritual Truth
By Dean Lusk When I was very young, my mom pointed out that Proverbs has 31 chapters -- one for every day of the month (yes, Martha, even those months with 30 or 28 days). I've been in the New Testament for the past lon… -
Keeping Our Distance from Sin
The first problem with Eve was her proximity to the fruit. In the Garden they were able to eat from any fruit, except the Tree of the Knowledge of Good and Evil which stood in the centre. There was great freedom endowed…
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