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21 October 2010

The Second Best Love Story Ever Written

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So lately I've been dealing with the problem of not giving God all control of my life. It's really been a struggle for me, because I'm the type of person that wants to take charge of every situation. Over the years, that quality has been sort of been a blessing and a curse: God's allowed me to be a leader and use my gifts to glorify Him, but I've often gone beyond that and tried to be the god of my own life. Suffice to say, it hasn't and won't ever go well. Jeremiah 29 makes it pretty clear that ...

13 October 2010

The Prodigal

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The Bible tends to address the topic of running away from God and coming back to him a lot. I mean, seriously, how about the entire books of Judges and Hosea, along with countless other passages about it? The topic must be important, huh? The more I go through life, the more I realize that my need for grace again and again is dire. And the passages I keep "running into" are helping me know that God knew this was going to happen. I mean take the book of Hosea: God tells this guy to to take a prostitute ...