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Dubai: Amazing and Strategic City
Dubai, United Arab Emirates, is on the eastern side of the Arabian Peninsula. It is a coastal city, 70 miles across the Persian (or Arabian) Gulf from Iran. It borders on Saudi Arabia and Oman. It is...
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Good News of Great Joy: Daily Readings for Advent
Dear Friends,I’m excited to announce that our Advent ebook is newly revised and ready for December 2013 — and free of charge. It’s called Good News of Great Joy.As you know, Advent is just around the...
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An Alternative Script for Same-Sex Attraction
“There is nothing wrong with living a gay lifestyle. In fact, if you repress who you are, you will never live a happy, fulfilled life. Be true to yourself!”This is the overwhelming message of society...
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Half a Century Since C.S. Lewis
He went quietly. It was very British.While the Americans rocked and reeled, and the world’s attention turned to Dallas and the assassination of President John F. Kennedy, one Clive Staples Lewis...
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A Book You Can Be Caught Reading
Some books we rarely read in public. Spiritual Depression. Almost Anorexic. Addictions: A Banquet in the Grave. Anything on sexual purity.Regardless of our reason for reading, it can feel like a...
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How Can We Give Thanks in All Circumstances?
Give thanks in all circumstances; for this is the will of God in Christ Jesus for you. (1 Thessalonians 5:18)In last week’s post, I described grumbling as the accent of hell and gratitude as the accent...
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Are You Chasing Happiness or Holiness?
Such a question actually reveals a common mistake of pitting holiness and happiness against each other. “God is more interested in you being holy than happy,” so the line goes.One of my favorite...
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How to Clear the Clutter in Your Life
Sometimes our dining room table gets cluttered.For one, it’s a big table. Every time I have to squeeze around the end chair, sliding my back against the wall, I remind myself that it’s not for the...
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More Than Just Raking
I’ll take a rake over a shovel any day.Raking is relatively easy work and can make the yard look better in a short time. It’s easy enough that even our twin three-year-olds helped this fall, thanks to...
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Are Books Your Shell Collection?
The glasses gave it away.If it weren’t for those glasses, his unruly hair and wild beard would cause you to mistake him as a peddler. You’d reach your hands in your pocket in search for some coins. But...
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Should You Live in Abu Dhabi?
Abu Dhabi is the capital of the United Arab Emirates in the Arabian Peninsula. It is virtually an island because of the way the inland waterways from the Persian Gulf weave around it. The population is...
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How Will You Make This Advent Special?
We’re now only five days from Advent, which begins this Sunday, December 1.Just a few minutes of forethought today could go a long way in making this year special for your family, or spiritually...
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Five Truths About Thanksgiving
Thanksgiving is more than a day off. It is more than eating mashed potatoes and gravy, watching football, and taking a wonderful turkey-induced nap.Thanksgiving is a pervasive and essential concept in...
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Thanksgiving, Thanksfeeling, and the Glory of God
Now and then, it needs to be said that not all thanksgiving is thanksfeeling. We can make ourselves (or our children) say, “Thank you,” whether we feel it or not. But it’s not a good habit, especially...
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When Black Friday Becomes a Mission
With the Christmas season and all its commercial blitz and glitz upon us (seen especially on Black Friday), let’s lay aside the grousing and see the grace. No throwing wet blankets over Christmas.May...
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The Most Important Doctrine You’ve Never Heard Of?
Union with Christ. We couldn’t be any more excited about taking up this theme at our upcoming conference for pastors.Whether this doctrine is an old friend or one you haven’t heard much about, it will...
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My Joy and God’s Holiness: Friends or Foes?
Happiness and holiness are inseparable. True holiness is unattainable without true happiness. Happiness is part of holiness — even the essence of holiness.But there’s an even deeper connection between...
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Until the Son of God Appeared
Finally, the son was born. Generation after generation had anticipated his birth and the world desperately needed him. Desperately.Each day was a gloomy cloud of night. The darkness of death’s shadow...
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Five Things to Teach Your Children This Christmas
“Mom, I need to add something to my Christmas wish list.”It’s that time of year again. The stores are adorned with all things red and green. Mailboxes and inboxes are filled with ads, sales, and...
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No One Ever Said It Would Be This Hard
Nobody said it was easy;No one ever said it would be this hard. (Coldplay, “The Scientist”)O Christian Hedonism! That ancient, beautiful, biblical truth that our treasure is what most captures our...
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