Tag: the truth
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Righteous Rebellion
One morning, I came across a message shared in a WhatsApp group, and it made me pause. The writer was talking about resisting the constraints that society and culture place on us as human beings. About how no one should decide the “appropriate” dress code, or tell us what to do with our lives; that…
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Face to Face with Reality
I was recently asked what serving in a village was like, and all I could say was that it made me realize the weight of the work we have to do on this earth. For years, I’d been told about how many people were waiting for me to rise and take my place in Christ,…
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Past Sins Are Blotted Out…What about Present Sins?
Then Jesus said, “he who is forgiven much, loves much.“ You were forgiven before you sinned I was reading a book, and the author was talking about how amputees usually feel pain or sensations in the places where their limbs used to be — phantom pain, it is called. Then he likened how the memories…
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The Paradox of Living
Littered all across scripture are paradoxes upon paradoxes. Matthew 11:28&29. Jesus call the heavy-ladened to come and pick up his yoke. Ephesians 2:8&9 and James 2:14, 17&26. One claims that faith, not works, is what saved us, and the other claim that faith without works is dead. Ephesians 1:19-23 talks about Christ conquering principalities and…
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Fictitious Reality
“Imagination and fiction make up more than three quarters of our real life.” – Simone Weil Somehow I always find myself living with people who are crazy about movies. Maybe not crazy crazy, but you sha get the point. They would sit down, watching series after series, standalone after standalone, while I stared at them…
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