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Intentional Christianity
Over the past few weeks, I’ve been thinking more and more about living life intentionally. I will admit that the prospect of having a child to take care of in the next few months has been a major catalyst in me pursuing this line of thinking. I have been thinking about how to be a proactive parent rather than a reactive one. For example, if there are experiences that we want to give our children, we will actively pursue that opportunity rather than just wait and hope it will happen. → Read more...
Our Children and Our Children’s Children
I know I’ve said this before and I will probably say it again and again: It is amazing how the Bible is truly a Living Word because it changes with us. There is always something new that speaks to us or suddenly is revealed in a profound way, even when we’ve read the same words over and over. Right now, my Bible studies have taken me to the Book of Exodus once again. This familiar story of the release of the Hebrews from the hardship of Egypt through miraculous signs and wonders, I’ve read almost constantly from grade school and onward. → Read more...
God Has a Plan, Just Wait
I just finished reading the story of Joseph in the book of Genesis. Most of us know this story from Sunday School. It is one of the early Bible lessons that we learn. Joseph, the favorite of twelve sons, was sold into slavery to passing Arab merchants who, in turn, sold him to one of the prominent officials of an Egyptian pharaoh. Through his integrity and God’s blessing, he rose to prominence in the official’s household only to be thrown into jail after falsely being accused of adultery by the official’s wife. → Read more...
Obedience
For my recent Bible time, I have been reading the book of Genesis. I just finished the story arc of Abraham, the patriarch of the Jewish and the Christian faith. Abraham, to me, is an amazing model of faithfulness and obedience. You have to remember that he lived a life without Scripture, without the Bible, without anything written. There was no guidance, but the voice of God. Indeed, many New Testament writers uphold Abraham as an example of this trait. → Read more...
What It All Means
What is the meaning of life? That’s the question man has chased for centuries since he was first awoken on this planet. Why am I here? Indeed, after thousands of years, it seems that man is no closer to deciphering that answer. Like a dog chasing its tail, he keeps going around and around in circles, looking to science to discover the answer, looking to drugs to get out of solving for the answer, looking to philosophy and acquired knowledge to deduce the answer, looking to the heavens (what he can see of it) to detect the answer, looking everywhere he can to find the answer. → Read more...
Mary, Did You Know?
It’s interesting: the process of aging, getting older, usually means that when you hear the same stories that you’ve heard before, sometimes you discover something that you hadn’t noticed before. Life has given you a different perspective from when you heard the story originally. Nowhere else, for me at least, has this held true than the Christmas story. By age 30 – if you’ve been a life-long Christian like I am – the story gets very familiar. → Read more...
Remember Our Responsibility
My goal this year is to slow down and take a breath every now and then and renew and refocus my mind on what’s really important in this season: God and family, whether it is by blood or by the family we’ve built for ourselves through friends. So, for the month of December, this space will provide all of us with reminders of what’s really important this month. This week’s theme is: Remember Our Responsibility. In the past couple of weeks, we’ve reminded ourselves that Jesus is the reason for the season and that, in the frenzy of the holidays, we shouldn’t forget others, especially those in retail and customer service who are working tirelessly with many frustrated customers. → Read more...
Remember Those Who Serve You
Well, that didn’t take long. It’s officially December. By now, most people have turned their focus to Christmas. Decorations are going up, lights are being turned on, food is being cooked, plans are being made, and yes, gifts are being bought. This is the crazy time of the year that we love and hate. Love because of everything it stands for: family, gifts, love and warmth. Hate because of the money it costs, extra traffic, the frenzied traveling, and yes, sometimes family. → Read more...
Doubt in the Midst of Miracles
June 7, 2012
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A small note: This was written as an experiment to try to understand what could drive someone to doubt in the middle of all the amazing grace found in Exodus 4-17. – Matt Imagine you and your family are part of a group of people that has been enslaved for hundred of years to servitude and indentured labor. It’s been this way for as long as anyone living can remember and there’s no hope. All of a sudden, there comes a whisper of a man – one of your people – who is daring to challenge the king that has kept your race enslaved. → Read more...
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