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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 3 ~ A Question We ‘Should’ Ask – but Never Do

Posted on January 18, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Like me, have you also heard that various investigators and prosecutors are cautioned never to ask a question they don’t already know the answer to? I don’t know if that’s true, but if it is, it’s obviously intended to prevent 

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 2 ~ “Enough” Already

Posted on January 11, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

As we continue our new series on Emptying Our Way to Fullness, we see that in the process of teaching us things we need to know, often God’s first inclination is to 

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Emptying Our Way to Fullness, Part 1 ~ The Journey Begins

Posted on January 4, 2025 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Like the rest of America and much of the Western world, we awoke on Wednesday morning to the news that 

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The Christmas Story Revisited, Part 5 ~ Magi, Miraculous Missions, and Madmen

Posted on December 28, 2024 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

Seeing the title of this post in finalizing our series, The Christmas Story Revisited, probably has some of you wondering whether I forgot to look at my calendar. Did I not 

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The Christmas Story Revisited, Part 4 ~ Drop-in Visits, Shocking Announcements, and ‘News You Can Use’

Posted on December 21, 2024 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

As we’ve been making our journey back in time in our Christmas Story Revisited series, it appears that our current Christmas Day has been

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The Christmas Story Revisited, Part 3 ~ Oh Little Hometown of Bethlehem

Posted on December 14, 2024 by Ron Gallagher, Ed.S

It’s hard to believe that we’re at week 3 of our Revisiting the Christmas Story series for 2024. And it’s difficult to approach this week’s session without thinking about

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