Category: Family
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Five books you should read this summer
Our schedules often loosen during the summer. We get to travel and spend time at the beach or the mountains. Summer is a wonderful time to invest in yourself. In view of that, here are five books that I think it would be worth your while to read this summer
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Who is my neighbor?
On Saturday I experienced a foretaste of the heavenly banquet. After spending the morning doing various things to serve our downtown community, members of our church went out and invited everyone they met to have lunch with us. Many came.
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How our American way wars against the Christian way
I’ve been thinking about what it means to follow Jesus in twenty-first century American culture. The more I think about it, the more I’m forced to the conclusion that there’s a lot about our American way of life that wars against the Christian way of life. Perhaps it’s peculiar that I used the phrase “Christian […]
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Todd Aiken and the challenge of secularism
I haven’t followed the implosion of Covenant Seminary alumnus and Republican representative Todd Aiken’s political flame out. About the only thing I can say about it is that Aiken said something stupid. Of course, he’s a politician. Most politicians are better at the art of getting elected than they are at the art of thinking. […]
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How the Bearenstain Bears ruined my day
The Bearenstain Bears changed the course of my day today. They made me miss a phone date with (my wife) Anna who is at Campus by the Sea this week–a place only slightly more difficult to reach by phone than a federal penitentiary. I was running in our neighborhood this morning, both kids in the […]
Jeff Gissing 