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Ask For The Right Thing
God hands Solomon a blank check. “Ask what I shall give you.” Anything. And the young king, newly seated on his father’s…
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Five Hundred Meters: The Church And The Bystanders This War Has Turned Into Leverage
On Friday morning, the Islamic Revolutionary Guard Corps posted a message on Telegram addressed to the ordinary residents of seven countries. Stay…
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Drink The Chalice
Two brothers ask for thrones about ninety seconds after Jesus tells them he is going to be handed over, condemned, mocked, scourged,…
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Understand The Word
A farmer in the ancient Near East threw his seed by hand, and some of it was going to die. He knew…
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The Harm You Cannot Aim: The Church And The Threat To Strike Iran’s Nuclear Sites
President Trump said Tuesday that the United States is planning to strike a fortified underground site near one of Iran’s main uranium-enrichment…
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Why We Dig Broken Wells
There’s a line in today’s First Reading that should stop us cold, because it charges God’s people with an act of almost…
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She Stayed At The Tomb
Everyone else went home. Peter and John ran to the tomb, looked in, saw the linen cloths, and walked back to wherever…
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Only God Forgives Like This
Micah ends his book by asking a question that happens to be his own name. Micah is short for Micaiah, “who is…
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Give God What He Actually Wants
We are good at religious math. We know what we owe, and we pay it: an hour on Sunday, a check in…
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Sixteen Names And One Still Missing: What A Nation Owes The Soldiers It Sends
Central Command released a statement Saturday saying two American service members were killed in action in Jordan, and that a third is…
