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Hope, like a muscle, will not be strong if it goes unused. — Douglas J. Moo (The Epistle to the Romans) Planning is a creative event. Anyone who has built something significant knows the possibilities that a good designer can bring to the table. At New Life, we have just finished adding a gymnasium on our [...]

The God-side of the event whose world-side is called return is called redemption. — Martin Buber (I and Thou) When something seemingly mundane is repeated four times, it’s usually important. If I was to say, “September 11, 2006, five years later, at the very hour, right then, something happened”, you would understand that the significance [...]

So I saw in my dream that just as Christian came up with the cross, his burden loosed from off his shoulders, and fell from his back, and began to tumble, and so continued to do, till it came to the mouth of the sepulchre where it fell in, and I saw it no more. [...]

Rather a worm in the eyes of Jesus than a god in the eyes of men! — Helmut Thielicke (Our Heavenly Father: Sermons On the Lord’s Prayer) Everyone has a friend like this. Someone who is always blurts out the most awkward things at the wrong time. Someone whose lack of social grace makes everyone [...]

You may run from His mercy; you cannot from His justice. — Charles Wesley (Charles Wesley: A Reader) Israel had a problem. God’s defeat of evil was so complete, they were stuck with a lot of dead bodies to deal with! It’s a good problem, but a serious one. Here are some of the questions that [...]