The Passionate Life

Like me with my young son, we are inclined to put our passions into seeing where we stand in relationship with one another. It's about comparison. We look at each other, not so much to honestly evaluate one another but to discern what degree of giftedness our brother or sister has in relation to ourselves. We look over our shoulders to see how someone else does. When we live comparatively like that, the sole purpose of life is to gauge our significance. We all have doubts about ourselves and our worth. It's natural. But the more doubt we

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The Stranger At The Door: Review of The Broken Wall

Even though Paul may not have been the writer of Ephesians, I read a description of him in a recent book that intrigued and inspired me. The apostle we are used to is pretty much a nose-to- the-grindstone kind of guy, a genuinely balanced person on a mission from God. Listen to this different description of him from a recent book by Canadian scholar Donald Akenson: Notice the man coming up the street, you've seen him before, lots of times, on different streets, various cities, other continents. He's the nearest thing we have to a witness so keep your eye

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