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“Woe unto them that seek deep to hide their counsel from the LORD, and their works are in the dark, and they say, Who seeth us? and who knoweth us? Surely your turning of things upside down shall be esteemed as the potter’s clay: for shall the work say of him that made it, He… Read more
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As children of God, we are called to live with an expectancy that Jesus could return at any moment. That hope should not produce fear, but sobriety, humility, and a heart that stays ready before God. Every day should be a day of repentance, because Scripture calls us to repent and turn to God so… Read more
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I do not reject most people too quickly. I feel it fully. I let the empathy hit first. Then I sit with it until it stops being noise and starts being information. What I feel is not what I decide. Affective empathy is data, not a conclusion. I question it. I test it. I track… Read more
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the weight settles softly, inside the chest, inside the breathsomething unnamed aches, without edges, without reasonit lingers quietly, asking nothing, taking space days blur together, carried by habit, carried by strainwe move through hours, half present, half fadingstill something reaches, even in the dullness, even in the hurt a stranger appears, fragile and distant, yet… Read more
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When Paul came to Thessalonica and Berea, he didn’t rely on clever speech or personal opinion. He sat down with folks and walked them through the Scriptures, showing plainly that the Messiah had to suffer and rise again. As Acts tells us, he was “opening and alleging, that Christ must needs have suffered, and risen… Read more
Seeing through the eyes of others 