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Why Do We Expect World Peace From Miss America, But Not Jesus?
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World Peace is one of just two easy answers in life. It’s the correct response when a pageant contestant is asked what she would most want to see happen during her lifetime. This response is the mocked canned answer made famous in the movie Miss Congeniality. The other easy answer is “Jesus” in response…
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What’s The Point of Studying Scripture? Can’t I Just be Spiritual?
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When it comes to studying Scripture, you get out of it what you put into it. Jonathan Edwards clearly put much more into it than most could ever aspire. That should not dissuade us common folk, though. Our only real competition is ourselves. When running the race to win, aspire to continually raise the…
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The Torments of Hell and Can I Really Feel Your Personal Pain?
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It’s unnatural to really feel the personal pain of someone else. You can sympathize, but really feeling the suffrage of another isn’t something we intuitively do. And why does it matter anyway? Well, for starters, it’s a way we can keep our own personal pain in perspective. But another, and more important, reason for…
