Religion & Spirituality > Christian Beliefs & Culture Christian living: How to live a life that is pleasing to God

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Christianity is becoming less and less popular these days. In the States, we may not be physically persecuted, but our coworkers, our neighbors, our families consider us those intolerant ones (even intolerable ones!), those closed-minded fools, those stuck-in-the-muds.In the face of this, we're tempted to do one of two things... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Bible Study Worship: A love relationship

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The story of the Bible is a romantic comedy. A happily-ever-after. The Groom gets the Bride. After getting engaged, my days were full of marriage dreams. I showed off my ring to everyone I met and bragged nonstop about my husband-to-be. I registered and planned and prayed. We talked about what it would be like living together... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Christian Doctrine & Issues Spirit, Soul and Body

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What great man, upon the eve of his martyrdom, regarded his followers and comforted them with the soothing words that what they saw before them was a shell, that his true self, his soul would soon be ascending to where it belongs?Such wisdom. The piety oozes from these final focused thoughts.The man's name was Socrates, a man... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Bible Study Bible study: What we can learn from Old Testament characters

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"A place," the Bible calls it. There was nothing special about the place. Nondescript, the middle of nowhere, the Bible marks it only as where Jacob laid his head for a night's rest.It was the first stop on Jacob's flight from his brother and his journey to find family and his place in the world. Behind him: deception. He had... More..

Religion & Spirituality > Churches & Organizations What is this thing called church?

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"For just as in one body we have many members, and not all the members serve the same function, so we who are many are one body in Christ, and individually we are members who belong to one another" (Romans 12:4-5, NET).As the church, we are in Christ, of Christ, and the body of Christ. This is one of my favorite metaphors for... More..

Arts & Humanities > Art Appreciation Exploring the mind, body and soul connection in art

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It was the time of the Gladiators, and Christians fed the lions.Pressed down and persecuted on all sides, Christians met and worshiped in catacombs among the dead. This is where early Christian art emerged.This past weekend, I visited the art exhibit, "Picturing the Bible: The Earliest Christian Art" at the Kimbell Art Museum... More..

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