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In Honor of the Queen
A certain someone around our house celebrated a birthday today. So we decided to crown “the queen” with cookie cake on her special day. Words don’t really express the blessing Sunny is to the people in her life. She spent … Continue reading
Daring Faith: Coming Back
What do you think of when you hear the word “comeback?” Sports fans might think back to the most recent Super Bowl and the Patriots’ historic 25-point comeback, the largest in Super Bowl history. Michael Phelps was in the news … Continue reading
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Daring Faith: The Glory of the Cross
At the height of the Nazi regime, while millions of Jews were being killed in the extermination camps, mimeographed pamphlets denouncing Nazi tyranny were being distributed across Germany – leaflets written by a group calling themselves “The White Rose.” These … Continue reading
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Daring Faith: Living the Prayer of Jesus
In his 2016 book entitled Be Light, author Samuel Rodriguez tells the following story: In 1957, a graduate student at Columbia University named Gordon Gould had been working with “pumping” atoms to higher energy states so they would emit light. … Continue reading
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Daring Faith: The Holy Spirit
It was the first day of school for Dan Lear’s three kids. In a scramble to get his boys to class on time, the Seattle lawyer wound up parking in a space he probably should have avoided. “There was a … Continue reading
Daring Faith: I Was Blind But Now I See
In 2013, I made a choice to believe in the resurrection. Two years earlier, my father-in-law, Alan Shates, was diagnosed with ALS, a disease for which there is no known cure. As we watched this disease slowly strip Alan of … Continue reading
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Hope Against Hope
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It was a Saturday. We were planning to go to Nashville that day to see her. She’d been hospitalized there for several days and we’d planned for me to finish up the school…
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