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How Your Wish List is Pointing You to God

You're a bundle of hopes and expectations. Be honest, you've got some pretty specific things you want to accomplish or obtain in life. Maybe for you it's about being the best at something. Or maybe it's owning something that stands out. In your false humility, you might dismiss this as pertaining to someone else, but you have to admit, it's…...

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Your Weekend Worldview Reader

  Here's Your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST).       ⊕  Redeeming Boredom ⊕  When a Diamond…...

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Redeeming Boredom

"All of humanity's problems stem from man's inability to sit quietly in a room alone," the French philosopher Pascal once wrote. Pascal wasn't really talking about making the most of our quiet and boring moments. He was getting to the heart of our inability to face ourselves. We seek diversions to avoid these painful encounters. Quiet moments can drive us…...

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When a Diamond in Your Head Doesn’t Increase Your Self-Worth

The rapper Lil Uzi Vert chose to have a twenty-four million dollar diamond implanted in his forehead. Everywhere he goes, he is not only carrying, but displaying, a multi-million dollar jewel. No wonder one of his most recent social media updates is that he cannot trust anyone. I can’t trust no one 💯😔!!! — Uzi London 🌎☄️💕® (@LILUZIVERT) February 15,…...

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Your Weekend Worldview Reader

  Here's Your Weekend Worldview Reader with links to articles, essays, reviews, & videos I consider to be interesting or important from a biblical worldview. Join me on the first & third Friday every month as I discuss topics from the post with Carmen LaBerge on My Faith Radio around 7:40AM (EST).       ⊕  Towards a Jesus-Centered Apologetic (Part…...

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Towards a Jesus-Centered Apologetic (Part Four)

The parables of Jesus are far more powerful and controversial than most realize. These explosive stories cut through the thickest of cultural misconceptions about God. Sadly, we often sanitize them, and thus rob them of both their impact and their meaning, by reducing them to simple morality lessons. As you read the parables, consider the context in which Jesus shared…...

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Seven Reasons to Trust the New Testament More Than a Blind Poet

The Greek poet Homer was thought to be blind. He lived about seven or eight hundred years before Jesus. His writings the Iliad and the Odyssey have more ancient copies than any other piece of literature from the distant past. Except, that is, for the Bible. But no one is praying to Homer or basing their lives on the Odyssey. Why do…...

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