Life in DFW can simultaneously be a blessing and a curse. We are blessed to raise our families in communities that are relatively safe. We are cursed because our neighborhoods sometime resemble insulated cocoons where we don’t visibly see enough of the world’s brokenness.
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Great is Thy faithfulness, O God my Father. There is no shadow of turning with Thee. Thou changest not, Thy compassions they fail not; as Thou hast been Thou forever wilt be. Great is Thy faithfulness, great is Thy faithfulness. Morning by morning new mercies I see. All I have needed Thy hand hath provided. Great is Thy faithfulness, Lord unto me. I have always desired children. There isn’t ...
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Why is Life Sacred? What is it that sets humans apart from other animals? Is it the fact that we use tools or that we have big brains? Is it the fact that we are smart or work together? Genesis 1:27 gives us the answer: We are made in the image of God. We alone, out of all that God created, bear the image of God – the imago dei. What this means is that, though we are not God, we are more like ...
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It took years for God to break the stranglehold of blatant racism in me—I wonder if any of us gets free of its more subtle forms—and I now see this sin as one of the most poisonous, with perhaps the greatest societal effects. Philip Yancey, Confessions of a Racist. Many Americans, Christians included, live as if our country is no longer racialized, naively believing that our country’s ...
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Thou preparest a table before me...my cup runneth over. Psalm 23:5 Above the cook top in my kitchen, a sign hangs with a quote from Lord Byron. It reads: “much depends on dinner.” The sign started off as a joke – a little irony directed at the Martha Stewart mindset that anything less than the perfect pork roast might unhinge the cosmos – but as time passed, it became less a witticism ...
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When I was kid, if you were curious about something too embarrassing to ask about, there was only one place to go: World Book Encyclopedia. Those sweet alphabetized mountains of illustrated knowledge sat authoritatively on the shelves in our family room. They beckoned to my curious third-grade mind, calling out proudly that they had all the information on the female anatomy that so mystified me. ...
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As a part of Advent this year, we’ve created a series of videos that focuses on the transition of darkness to light, from sin and depravity to the hope of all things made new. Through voiceover and an abstract, lyrical style that sets the tone more than it tells a linear story, the videos essentially communicate the gospel – God rescuing us out of darkness and bringing us further into the ...
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Who are you in light of the Father’s eyes? From where or whom do you draw your true identity? We often search for identity or significance in our social status, reputation and achievements apart from God. Amid the emptiness of this quest for identity, we’re enticed to fill the void with just about anything – past or current struggles, hobbies or a career. It’s common, even trendy, to ...
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