You need not be a genius to come up with a few rightful contenders for the ‘Word of the Year’ 2020. If your guess has anything to do with a virus that caught the world unawares, then I imagine it might just be good enough! Some words, more than...
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“Little drops of water, little grains of sand, make the mighty ocean and the beauteous land.” – Julia Carney. In the short run, it’s often hard to see the impact of repeatedly performing an action. However, cued by the opening lines above, taking...
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C.S. Lewis captures the pervasive nature of the Christian faith in his famous assertion: “I believe in Christianity as I believe that the sun has risen, not only because I see it, but because by it I see everything else.” Indeed...
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“In any argument, a wife has the last word. Anything the husband says after that last word is the beginning of a new argument.” “If a man opens the car door for his wife, you can be sure of one thing — either the car is new, or the wife is.”...
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The days are fleeting when religious faith is presumed merely by familial or social ties, and not necessarily on the basis of personal conviction or evident fruit. Thanks to the pervasive nature of social media, it’s becoming increasingly...
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I imagine there are veteran parents out there who do not only ‘talk the talk’ but have excelled at ‘walking the walk’ for much longer than I, and therefore may be better placed to speak authoritatively about parenting. As one in the trenches of...
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It’s not uncommon these days to find comics who have carved a niche for themselves in parody, inspired by Christian practices. From the outlandish to the revered, Christian eccentricities and clichés are fast becoming the butt of these...
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The story is often told of four people – Everybody, Somebody, Anybody and Nobody. There was an important job to be done, and Everybody was sure that Somebody would do it. Anybody could have done it, but Nobody did it. Somebody got angry about...
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“Should Christians judge?” Well, depending on whom you ask, there are equal chances of getting an emphatic ‘yes’ as much as a resounding ‘no’ in response; no doubt, there are the ‘in-betweeners’ too! No prizes for guessing which side of the...
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There are fewer questions, capable of humbling a vast majority of professing Christians today than “how is your prayer life?” or even a more pointed variant “do you pray?” No surprises, eh? Those are personal questions indeed, and answers...
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