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The family foundation of the late Thomas Kinkade demanded that the Department of Homeland Security (DHS) stop posting his art on social media. According to the family, the government agency misused “Morning Pledge”—which depicts children holding hands to hearts as an American flag is raised—“to promote division and xenophobia.” DHS posted the image on X …
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I mentioned in previous posts that having turned seventy this year I’m feeling every pain and taking all the pills to prove it. We septuagenarians and beyond may whine and complain, but one thing we can be thankful for is the diminishing struggle against peer pressure! In my case, seventy is the new eighty and …
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One of the many reasons I loved Tim Keller was that he pastored mostly wealthy Manhattans and yet displayed such courage over the years to say things like the following, based on Mary's song in Luke 1:52-53 “He has put down the mighty from their thrones, and exalted the lowly. He has filled the hungry …
“Blessed are the shalom makers for they shall be called children of God.” Matthew 5:8 In my research for my book on the Sermon on the Mount, I became fascinated with the rich implications of the word “shalom,” which appears over 500 times in the Old Testament. I’m convinced that the New Testament writers had …
In response to something I wrote recently, a friend of mine, wrote this to me: “For Christ-followers to get worked up over politics, is to fall right into the devil's scheme to make us ineffectual in our faith. Some of us are called to enter the political arena (or have come to faith while serving …
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