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Halloween: Embrace or Ignore?

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Well, for starters, Halloween is impossible to ignore and the holiday is gaining ground. Each year neighborhoods add more homes that are “all in” with Halloween décor. It hasn’t reached Christmas proportions, but it’s gaining ground.   Over the centuries Halloween has taken various forms and has been claimed by both … [Read more...]

The Three Questions

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Recently, within a span of a few days, I twice stumbled upon the three deep-seeded questions that everyone asks of themselves at some point in life: Who am I? Why am I here? What shall I do? I was piqued by the diversity of the two sources: one a scholarly opinion piece in a national newspaper. The other on the comics page. This … [Read more...]

9 Reasons to Teach Hope

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Hope is underrated and under-utilized. Its middle-child billing in 1 Corinthians 13 (faith, hope, and love) seems to makes it easier to ignore since, well, it’s not love, which we’re told, is the greatest of the three. Yet, hope is the driver of faith and the inspiration to persevere, which is something we need to do every day. … [Read more...]

10 Ways to Walk in the “Way of Love”

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Ephesians 5:1-2 says this: Follow God’s example, therefore, as dearly loved children and walk in the way of love, just as Christ loved us and gave himself up for us as a fragrant offering and sacrifice to God.   Say no more. Or at least, say very little. It’s a poetic, yet poignant, instruction: walk in the way of … [Read more...]

Bucket-Carrying Partners

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A friend of mine recently checked an item off his bucket list: playing The Old Course at St. Andrews in Scotland, the course commonly thought of as the birthplace of golf, dating back to the 1400s. As he crossed the iconic Swilcon bridge on the last hole, Dan created a 30-second video of him presenting pictures he had printed … [Read more...]