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If My Life was a Reality TV Program They Watched in Heaven
For many, including myself, the idea of God watching over us night and day, like a super-powered Santa, may seem a little absurd or hard to grasp, but what if we consider our lives running like reality tv with no breaks or pauses, and the All Mighty watching, maybe with a few of the Apostles. What would they be saying as they watched you?
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Three Reasons Many Christians Don’t Know Their Calling
Unlike most Christians I know, my faith walk has been sort of a DIY project. Of course I’m being a bit silly, but for a girl who met Jesus alone in her room one very dark night, there was just no possibility of it coming together with any more finesse than I could muster in my own ignorance. I was sixteen, had trust issues and didn’t talk to anyone about the inner turmoil I was battling, and I certainly didn’t discuss my supernatural experience with God that changed the entire trajectory of my life. It was years before I walked through the doors of that small Baptist church in Phenix…
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At Least I’m Not a Tax Collector
Apparently tax collectors, back in the day, were pretty unscrupulous characters, who had no qualms with taking a nice chunk of pie for themselves as they collected for the government. In the Bible they’re even relegated to their own category of wickedness when the religious elite, the Pharisees, criticized Jesus for eating with tax collectors and sinners. The really cool thing is, Jesus never shied away from tax collectors. “Render unto Caesar the things that are Caesar’s,” he told his disciples (Mark 12:17), and on at least two occasions he invited himself to dine with a tax collector, in their home, with all their friends (Matthew 9:10, Luke 19:5-7). He…
