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Nourishment for our Souls

Her name is Big Momma. Her life began in Louisiana, but she currently lives in Texas. As you might imagine, she is both quite large and quite good at producing offspring. My family is privileged to care for one of those offspring. It is rather simple work – a little attention every few weeks is really all that is required. Oh, perhaps I should have specified earlier. Big Momma is an Aloe Vera.  A few months ago, in an effort to show love to my wife, I repotted our baby Aloe from...

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Investing in Students

What did you do with your free time in your pre-teen and teenage years? Did you work a job or help around the house? Maybe you spent that time with friends playing and exploring? When I was a teenager (admittedly not that long ago), I spent my free time doing homework, cheering and playing at sporting events, mowing grass, fishing and going on adventures with my family. Last weekend I got to be a teenager again, with all the same energy and joy of those young years but with a different...

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Come and Hear

Reading Scripture often inundates my mind with thoughts and questions. The Holy Spirit often teaches us this way. Questions of meaning, intention, and audience can be so prominent while I read that a mental battle not to let them overshadow the actual passage breaks out.   Other times, though, I read a passage that stops all the mental noise. Through it I am confronted by God in such a way that mental noise bows before the call – the deep desire &ndash...

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