(The following is the July 4 devotional from my Next Step Devotions book. Before reading it, I suggest you read Romans 15 and pay close attention to verses 1-6.) Imagine you have many children. Gathering with them is one of your greatest joys. Picture them together on a particular day to honor you. They plan to sing …
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Bricks and Community
We have a lot of exposed brick inside our home. It's one of the things that attracted us to the place originally. I've been looking closely at all the brick and pondering it in recent days. No two bricks are the same. Many look very different. Some have weathered 117 years of use better than …
Good Advice From Someone You’ve Never Heard Of
Around the year 1627 a German Lutheran theologian named Rupertus Meldenius wrote a small tract on the subject of Christian unity. The tract was written, according to an article by Dr. Mark Ross, "during the Thirty Years War (1618-1648), a bloody time in European history in which religious tensions played a significant role." From that …
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