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El Roi, The God Who Sees

According to the world population clock, on November 15, 2016, there were  7,359,444,900 people inhabiting our planet. More than twice as many had been born (117,572,614) than had died (49,606,841) during the year by then. Those numbers include the  315,873 … Continue reading

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Paul: Integrity Stamped by Suffering

Reading in 2 Timothy this morning, I’m struck by these words of Paul to the young pastor he loved like a son: “Do not be ashamed of the testimony about our Lord or of me his prisoner. Rather, join with … Continue reading

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For the Love of a Tree

Across the stream behind my late-boyhood home in Cascade, Michigan, there stretched a forest where hepaticas bloomed purple and pink in the spring, profusions of trilliums scattered like popcorn beneath the understory, and colonies of downy rattlesnake plantain and shining … Continue reading

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