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Daily Lessons from the Bible.
Shame is almost a bad word in the modern zeitgeist. We hear people talking about it as if it’s an outdated emotional reaction to actions we don’t like,…
All things are permitted for me, but not all things are of benefit. All things are permitted for me, but I will not be mastered by anything. Food…
It’s common to hear “I can’t be at two places at once” when sorting out priorities or being overburdened with obligations. Indeed it is irresponsible, even negligent for…
Did you ever have an unreasonable request from your boss? Maybe one where the whole team would be in trouble if it wasn’t done, no matter how impossible?…
We hear about court cases in the news from time to time. There is one thing that can be learned from them. When your lawyer tells you to…
In the movie Talladega Nights, (bear with me here) Ricky Bobby has a motto: if you’re not first, you’re last. In the context of that silly movie, that’s what gets…
Be devoted to one another in brotherly love; give preference to one another in honor, not lagging behind in diligence, fervent in spirit, serving the Lord; rejoicing in…
People change and time moves us all along so a mistaken identity or a forgotten acquaintance here or there is forgivable. Some of us know a much harder…
Slavery is incurred by debt in the Roman world; aside from cases of prisoners of war, slavery was a reversable condition. The slave of God is put into…
“I hope I never have to go through that because I don’t know what I’d do.” This phrase is often heard when someone is remarking on another’s poor…