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This summer marks 75 years of Superman. The character was created by two Jewish teenagers, Jerry Seigel and Joe Shuster, in the mid-1930s as a synthesis of all the stories, hopes and archetypes they cherished growing up. Many of which stemmed from the Old Testament. This Judeo/Christian worldview is in the character’s DNA. That’s why it’s seemingly impossible to stray far from biblical ...

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Something shifted within me three years ago. My heart was moved in entirely new and different ways upon the birth of my son. Truth be told, I’m more easily emotional than I used to be. I now have to steel myself to prevent weepiness at the stop light when Crosby, Stills and Nash’s “Teach Your Children” comes on the radio. Those other drivers just wouldn’t understand.

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As a church, we strive to be transparent in all that we do. We also seek to be good stewards of the resources that God has graciously given us. This fleshes itself out in a variety of ways in a variety of areas. For example, when it comes to finances, we make our financial data available online and regularly review and analyze monthly financial statements to direct the mission of our church.

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My lofty ambition is to change the way you think about church membership. Of course, that ambition assumes that many don’t understand church membership well. This may be a poor assumption, but probably not. Certainly, cultural influences have left their mark.

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It’s no secret that kids live in a different world than their parents. They have their own subculture, and that subculture has its own host of subcultures within it. Increasingly younger kids have their own private, electronic lives ranging from Facebook accounts, Instagram profiles and Twitter feeds. All of these are unique to the child, and in many ways parents can be kept at arm’s ...

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For the body does not consist of one member but of many. If the foot should say, “Because I am not a hand, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. And if the ear should say, “Because I am not an eye, I do not belong to the body,” that would not make it any less a part of the body. If the whole body were an eye, where would be the ...

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One of the most difficult books of the Bible to interpret is Revelation. Luther called it a “moot prophecy.” John Calvin, though he wrote commentaries on most of the books of the Bible, wrote of Revelation, “I don’t understand it.” We won’t be able to cover everything about Revelation in one article (or maybe ever, in thousands of articles). However, here are ...

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If you've been a believer for any amount of time, you're familiar with the feeling. It's like you’re...off. Foggy. You're not connecting with God, even after you've asked Him to search your heart and reveal to you any unconfessed or secret sin. You are praying your guts out. You read the Scriptures hoping to feel real again. Your relationships are going well, but you feel distant from ...

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