by revruss October 29, 2018
Uncategorized

Why Doubting Believers are More Important than Ever

Friends, Now is the time to put your doubting skills and tendencies to work, and I'm not talking about God. I'm talking about information. When you receive information that just doesn't sound like something a particular person/organization/source would say, don't default to the-whole-world-has-gone-crazy-why-not-them way of thinking. Put on your doubting caps. Recently churches all over a Texas town got a mailer that was ostensibly from a local Presbyterian church urging them to to ...

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by revruss May 1, 2018
Faith Practices

Let Not Our Values Be Selective

People like to talk about "Family Values" or "Core Values" as if we all hold the same things to be important and, well, valuable. But we all have different values, and even those of us with the same set of values would most likely rank their order of importance differently. But whatever our values are, the key is to stick to them, not use them as weapons when it suits our ...

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