Love defeats contradiction (pt4)

April 11, 2011

… Mary and I had battled through questions, conquering doubts, picking up wind to fill sails. This is the last of a 4 part story. There was a college professor seemingly determined to extinguish flames of faith, a student struggling to keep faith alive, and me, in the right place at the right time. And […]

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Love breaks through contradictions (pt3)

April 8, 2011

… she kept a finger on one passage – and continuously flipped from one part of the Bible to the other. She muttered again and again, “They’re different. They’re different. They contradict. He’s right.” Flipping back and forth, talking herself out of her faith, prompted to this doubt by a professor who didn’t care much […]

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Love deals with contradiction (pt2)

April 7, 2011

…So this was Mary’s dilemma – an now mine too. Part one of this was yesterday – if you missed it – it’s pretty short – a quick read – and it’s conveniently placed right down below this post. This will make more sense if you have part one. She opened her Bible to the […]

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Love tackles contradiction

April 6, 2011

It was a dark time in my life. Everything – all of it – lay broken in countless shards, unfixable. The course of life forever changed, all my goals, dreams, were destroyed. It was a long time ago. It was during this time I left for a trip to the coast to seek hard after […]

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Love finds wisdom to lean into the storm (pt1)

April 5, 2011

got this here Where are you today? Are your waters calm or churning? Sky clear, misty, or ominous? Is the God of the Universe, Our Lord, near or distant? Are you letting God hold you close? My waters are churning, the sky is black, Our Lord is near and holding tight. I’ve prayed for his […]

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Love asks forgiveness for transgressions AND sins (Love prays part 12)

April 4, 2011

A little more about the “forgiveness” part of the Lord’s prayer. I never really understood why Our Lord would tell me to ask for my sins to be forgiven – even though he paid the price on the Cross and my sins are already forgiven. I obeyed anyway. I didn’t understand why He wanted me […]

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Love asks for forgiveness (Love prays pt 11)

April 1, 2011

Yesterday I felt the need to write about forgiveness. Today I figured out why. I forgot, we’re in the middle of a series on the Lord’s Prayer. The next part of it is, “forgive us our trespasses”. (or debts, or transgressions) We’ve all memorized this part different ways. So which one is “right”? Well there […]

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