Category Archives: Wake Up Calls

Admonitions for Crucial Times, Part 2 ~ Be Reasonable

These days, it seems as though emotional intensity permeates the very atmosphere around us. And with knee jerk responses and explosive 

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Admonitions for Crucial Times Part 1 ~ Be Informed

The significance of times and events isn’t always apparent to those observing or living through them. For instance, in spite of

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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 

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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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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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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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