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I Think I Might Have Lied Yesterday
I said something yesterday, something I’m not sure I meant. I had rushed into the hallmark store to escape the sudden onslaught of dreary winter rain. While I was mindless browsing through the jewelry, the proprietor made a dull comment about the weather. I (too) cheerfully responded, “I love the rain, because it brings the…
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Our Great Privilege
Another day. Anther atrocity. I turn my eyes from broadcast news, wince as I look into the eyes of those who have lost loved ones. Again. In a different city. By a different person. With a similar evil in their heart. I can’t watch it anymore. I was not made to bear this kind of grief.…
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Hope!!!
Before I finish my lunch break, I have to share this little thing on my heart. Its changing my walk with God. It’s changing how I see people, and it’s really not complicated, but if you will take hold of it it will mark you and strengthen you. Bill Johnson says “Hope and hopelessness are…
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The Birth Control Issue
As an advocate for adoption, family, the unborn, and children in general, I have not yet arrived on my perspective on the whole idea of birth control. I have an especially hard time with the idea that we as a country would be mandated to provide it for free. From what I have read about…
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To my future children:
Dear future children, Some people are saying I should stop dreaming about you. They are telling me, decidedly even, that the world is getting too evil to think about bringing children into it. All around me, they are saying we should stop dreaming. Just like that. Turn a key, close a lid, shove under the…
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Let’s get off Justin Bieber’s Back
“I can’t stand your religious meetings. I’m fed up with your conferences and conventions. I want nothing to do with your religion projects, your pretentious slogans and goals. I’m sick of your fund-raising schemes, your public relations and image making. I’ve had all I can take of your noisy ego-music. When was the last time…
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You may not want to hear what I have to say
You might not want to hear what I have to say. If you think there’s a chance, you might want to close the window. I want to say something though, even if it’s only for posterity, so I can look back one day and remember these days. What I see in my community is this: …
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Maybe it’s time to weep
I’ve been thinking about weeping. In John 11, Jesus loses a friend. He was close with Lazarus and his sisters. They had probably shared countless meals together, laughing and marveling at the world around them and what God was doing in their hearts. Jesus and Lazaurus may have shared their hearts as brothers over a…
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Dear Church, I have some questions for you.
Dear Church, I have some questions for you. A whole pile of you are really miserable. Christian couples I admired throughout my childhood are divorcing right and left. After years of watching you have what I thought was a happy marriage, now I’m finding out you were pretending the whole time. You tell me marriage…
Sarah D. Shearer 