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Maybe We’ve Been Gettin’ It Backwards
If you’ve been reading the Bible for a while, you’ve probably noticed that God sometimes does things in ways that don’t coincide with our expectations and natural inclinations. Beyond that, He has a tendency to
Posted in Cultural Context, Devotional, Faith, Family, and Culture, Insights, Right Side Up
Tagged Evening to evening you shall celebrate your sabbath, Gallagher's Pen, Maybe We've Been Gettin' It Backwards, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, the evening and the morning were the first day
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Spiritual Armor ~ It’s Time to Take It Seriously
Most of the time when I sit down at my computer to write, I feel a kind of optimistic hopefulness. I love the stimulating awareness that
Posted in Cultural Context, Exclusivity, Faith and Politics, Faith, Family, and Culture, In the News, Insights, Right Side Up, Wake Up Calls
Tagged Armor - It's Not Just a Social Media Meme, Gallagher's Pen, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, We do not war according to the flesh, We do not wrestle against flesh and blood
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There’s More Going on Than We Think
In the first chapter of Mark’s Gospel, there’s an encounter recorded that Jesus had with an unidentified man with leprosy – one that’s easy to overlook. The story’s brevity and its proximity to
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Tagged Gallagher's Pen, I am willing; be cleansed, If You are willing You can make me clean, Immediately the leprosy left him, Jesus drama, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher
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A Condition “Big Pharma” Can’t Treat
Maybe it’s just me, but I find the growing number of TV commercials for new drugs to be almost astonishing. I mention that because
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Tagged A Condition 'Big Pharma' Can't Treat, Fools despise wisdom and instruction., Gallagher's Pen, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, The fool has said in his heart "There is no God.", The wise shall inherit glory
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Did the Wisest Man on Earth ‘Really’ Say That?
If you read the Bible very much, you’ve probably noticed that occasionally you run across a passage in which something that someone said or did suddenly leaves you thinking,
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Tagged All is vanity, All things have become new, Did the Wisest Man on Earth 'Really' Say That?, Gallagher's Pen, he is a new creation, If anyone is in Christ, King Solomon, Old things have passed away, Over the sun, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, There's nothing new under the sun
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More than Just His Hands and Feet ~ Part 2: Let’s Face It…
Last week we started a discussion focusing on the small, but Biblically significant word, ‘Glory’. It’s a
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Tagged Gallagher's Pen, Glory of God, More than Just His Hands and Feet Part 2, Part 2 Let's Face It, Right Side Up Thinking in an Upside Down World, Ron Gallagher, the light of the knowledge of the glory of God in the face of Jesus, The Word became flesh and dwelt among us, You are the temple of God
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