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Life in a broken world comes with woundedness and pain. We can have physical, emotional, spiritual and relational distress, often more than one at once.

A pair of themes in the Scriptures run parallel to one another. Efforts to reconcile those parallel themes inevitably damage or distort one or the other. I am speaking of divine sovereignty and individual responsibility. Both are taught clearly in the Bible and sometimes seem to be a paradox

modified it into a very functional sleigh that the dogs could pull, and I could stand on and ride. It was quite an ingenious design and had the advantage of being collapsable for storage and transport.

Whether you call them flocks, gaggles or skeins, one thing you seldom see is a solo goose. Geese were designed to be in community, sometimes vast communities, but communities nonetheless.
n that, geese and Christians have a lot in common. Christians are not designed to live solo lives.

imes, but they are ongoing. As we are changed and impact our world, the world is changed, and the kingdom grows

Saints from all the ages gathered with people of every tribe and tongue and nation, all worshipping the Lord together. I get God bumps just thinking about it.

I was perusing an article on the 100 largest libraries in the world. I wasn’t surprised that the US Library of Congress (pictured) comes in first at 165 million items. I was a little surprised at the size of Canada’s Library and Archives in Ottawa. It comes in 5th in the world with over 64 million archived items. Thinking about libraries reminded me that I...

We are all familiar with the account. God has had enough with the sin of humanity. He charges Noah, a righteous man, to warn the world and build a large boat. In due course, Noah built the ark; the animals, Noah and his family get on board, and the Lord seals the ark.