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Dealing with Uncertain Certainties, Part 1 ~ Adjusting Expectations
Posted in Cultural Context, Devotional, Exclusivity, Faith, Family, and Culture, Forgiveness, Humor Turned to Insight, Insights, Right Side Up, Wake Up Calls
Tagged Adjusting Expectations, Dealing with Uncertain Certainties, Gallagher's Pen, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, To seek and save that which is lost
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Tax Relief Done God’s Way, Part 2 ~ Redemption’s Rebates
A brief look over our shoulder may be helpful in beginning today’s post as we pick up where we left off last week with the story of Jesus and a tax collector in Luke 19:1-7.
In Part 1 of our current series, we had Continue reading
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Tagged Forgiveness, Gallagher's Pen, Redemption, Redemption's Rebates, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, Tax Relief Done God's Way, Zacchaeus the Tax Collector
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Tax Relief Done God’s Way, Part 1 ~ A Publican Up a Tree
Well, it’s that time of year again. Signs heralding the arrival of Springtime have been gradually increasing for weeks. The weather is at least trying to get warmer (although there seems to be a Continue reading
Resurrection Sunday ~ Bringing Goodness Back to Life
Easter 2024 arrives at a time when it seems like evil has been granted an open invitation to invade our lives in one way or another every moment of every day. Grief, loss, pain, suffering, anger, and fear have grown to Continue reading
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Tagged Bringing Goodness Back to Life, Gallagher's Pen, Light has come into the world, Resurrection Sunday, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, Woe to those who call evil good
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Unidentified and Uninvited, Yet Unforgettable, Part 3 ~ A ‘Nobody’ Challenges Everybody
For the past couple of weeks, we’ve been exploring an incident in Jesus’ ministry recorded in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 7:36-50). A Pharisee named Simon had invited Jesus to dinner, which, in those days, was a semi-public event. As we saw in our previous posts, things didn’t Continue reading
Unidentified and Uninvited, Yet Unforgettable, Part 2 ~ A Love Story Unfolds
The more we endeavor to explore the world Jesus lived in, the more we discover that there was almost always a lot more going on around Him than might appear on the surface. A prime example of that is the story in Luke’s Gospel (Luke 7:36-50) that Continue reading
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