You and I speak English, read English, and write in English.  Yet we all had different teachers growing up. We each know addition, subtraction, multiplication, and division. Yet we all had different teachers along the way.  For math and reading, it really doesn’t matter who teaches them.  After all, math has nothing to do with my sixth grade teacher, Mr. Card.   And English doesn’t necessitate knowing my fourth grade teacher Miss. Bonn.  But if you want to know God, and know how to have life and live life then it is of......

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My daughter and I are doing a 500 piece puzzle together. There are 4 pieces that have two straight edges (so far we have found only 3). There are many more that have one straight edge.  The vast majority have no straight edges at all. Every piece requires other pieces and all 500 need the other 499 to reveal the picture promised on the cover of the box. The church is a gathering of many different pieces. As disciples, Christians need each other to see the big picture of what Jesus intends......

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Guthrie Graves-Fitzsimmons, in an article posted by CNN on Thursday, January 24, 2019, declared that “Christianity’s future looks more like Lady Gaga than Mike Pence.” At stake, in Graves-Fitzsimmons’ mind, was which Christian self-identity will win out in the end. It is no wonder that, in our current culture, Christianity is not defined by God’s word, but by man’s self-identification and popular opinion. This is not new to those who know a little about the history of Christianity. The massive influence of Christianity on western civilization has led many seeking power or......

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