The Mystery of Marriage

This week’s Feature Article by Leith Anderson Part 3 from the series, “Bible Mysteries” Ephesians 5:31-32 We are launching a new series of Leith’s extended articles to be posted each weekend.  This is the third of four installments in the series, “Bible Mysteries.”  Links to previous articles in this series are provided at the bottom of this entry.  Among [...]

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Parents as Travel Agents

A great temptation of parenthood is imposing your desires and inclinations on your child. You love music so you want your daughter to be a musician. You’re a carpenter so you want your son to be a carpenter. Instead of forcing our desires on our children; I think, as parents, it’s helpful to picture ourselves [...]

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Lessons from Crooked Trees

There used to be some very crooked Russian olive trees in our back yard. The annoying thing about them was that their trunks grew more sideways than upward. Some were so low to the ground that I could hardly mow under them. I tried trimming them, but that didn’t help. The only way to change [...]

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The Disciplines of Life

If you polish a piece of wood or a precious stone, you are actually putting a lot of scratches on parallel lines, until eventually those scratches form a brilliant reflective pattern. That is similar to what God is doing when he disciplines us. The Bible explains it this way, “Do not lose heart when [God] [...]

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God Wants Us to be Winners

Did you know that God wants us to be winners? In the Bible it says, “Let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” God sees life as a race and he’s determined to make all those who believe in him into winners. Some people think of God as an enemy working against [...]

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Looking for Help?

Have you noticed how there seems to be a self-help book or support group to help us deal with every problem, weakness or addiction bothering us? Most of us believe that getting rid of the bad stuff in our lives will solve most of our problems. But Jesus taught that getting rid of the bad [...]

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The Mystery Message of God to Earth

This week’s Feature Article by Leith Anderson Part 2 from the series, “Bible Mysteries” Romans 16:25-27; Ephesians 1:9-10, 3:1-13; Colossians 1:26-27 We are launching a new series of Leith’s extended articles to be posted each weekend.  This is the second of four installments in the series, “Bible Mysteries.”  A link to last week’s article is [...]

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Understanding Through Experience

My father was pretty healthy for most of his life. Then in his seventies, he went through a series of medical problems. At one point when the physician thought he was dying, I immediately flew to Florida to see him. By the time I arrived he was doing much better. As I sat with him [...]

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A Sudden Interruption

Once when the plane my wife and I were on was landing, there was a sudden interruption. As we approached the runway, the plane suddenly banked to the right, then began picking up altitude. For a split second all conversation ceased. Something important had happened—actually it was someone important. Air Force One was approaching and [...]

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The Portrait

Some time ago I heard the story of a man who had commissioned an artist to paint a portrait of his much-loved wife which hung over their living room mantle. After she died, the portrait took on a whole new significance. Because they were Christians he knew he would someday join her in heaven, but [...]

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Swimming with Dolphins

I once read an article about people swimming with dolphins. The thing that caught my attention was describing these encounters with dolphins as a “spiritual experience.” Today I’d like you to imagine a spiritual experience that Christians have that’s infinitely better than connecting with these intelligent sea mammals. Some call it the Eucharist; others, “Communion” [...]

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How to Face Temptation

Temptation is an unfortunate fact of life. Your temptation may be different from mine, but Satan targets all of us. Even Jesus was tempted by Satan and we can learn much from how he withstood temptation. The Bible tells us that Jesus was filled with the Holy Spirit. That means he was completely controlled by [...]

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