294,636 Words
294,636 words. 589 single-spaced pages. I read them over and over again, trying to understand what I'd learned from inte...
Assurance of Salvation
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Blessed, Blessed, Blessed
#blessed. It's the default caption for photos of new cars, new houses, new jobs, or sunsets. The word has even escaped t...
Talk Is Cheap
An anonymous poster to an online forum wrote, "I am a new Christian. I sin a lot. I am such a bad person. I insult other...
Not the Messiah They Ordered
You've repeatedly asked God the same question, hoping for a different answer. You've journaled about it, asked three fri...
Reflect: Found by Jesus
When the Bible Becomes a Battleground
I spent years arguing about whether God chose me or I chose God. Scholars on both sides warned me that the other positio...
Thoughts and Prayers
In 1522, when the Protestant reformer Martin Luther published his German translation of the New Testament, he placed Heb...
It Was I
In one of Leo Tolstoy's short stories, Martuin Avdyeitch did what was right, but his heart was weighed down with sadness...
Not Me
From the Auschwitz death camp, the Franciscan priest Maximilian Kolbe wrote to his mother, "Do not worry about me or my...
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