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Godly Rational Actors

Sometimes it’s hard to distinguish genuine people of God from the rest of the world. That’s often the case when we see the godly and

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Fulfilling the New Covenant

What does it mean to “hear from God”? Is it just something people make up to sound holy, or to keep others from questioning them?

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The Real Deal

What do we do when the people and institutions we have trusted all our lives prove themselves to be untrustworthy? It’s bad enough when the

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Maternal Advocacy

Could a mother’s love be a component of End Times prophecy? Maybe – or maybe it’s the lack of maternal love that is the true

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Relative Judgment

How do we define right and wrong if there is no absolute truth? We complain about moral relativism, but only until we realize that the

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God and Two-Tiered Justice

No one likes a double standard, except perhaps when that practice works out in their favor. That’s why human justice systems often seem unfair. Is

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Mourning the Wicked

Ever since human beings started defining good and evil for themselves, we’ve had this problem of consigning people we define as evil to destruction. As

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Recreating God

We have a lot of trouble understanding and relating to our infinite God. That’s because He is infinite and we’re not. What we know of

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Awaiting the Full Inheritance

It’s difficult to understand that our present circumstances have not always been so, nor will they always be so. Borders changes, as do economies, social

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A Matter of Synchronization

Why do we sometimes feel disconnected – somehow out of synch with our time and place? We can point to a number of physical, psychological,

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