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2025-09-28T01:55:40-05:00

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Time To Act: Utilizing Grace To Live Fully

Last updated on: September 28, 2025 at 1:55 am By Henry Karlson

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Christ expects us to use the grace given to us to grow and become better persons over time. He does not want us to sit back and do nothing, thinking if we do anything, we circumvent grace by placing our trust exclusively on our works. Faith is more than mere belief, it requires action; to be faithful to Christ means we will do as he told us and we will do it out of love. Those who think they should... Read more

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Parable of the Talents

2025-09-26T01:58:51-05:00

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John The Beloved: A Testament To The Power Of Love

Last updated on: September 26, 2025 at 1:58 am By Henry Karlson

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The Apostle John reveals to us in various texts under his name, texts coming either directly from him or indirectly through his community, the love he experienced from Jesus. He did so with a desire for us to experience that love for ourselves. What we find in those texts is the constant mention of God’s love for us, but also, the way which we are to embrace that love by acting in and with love in all that we do.[1]... Read more

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2025-09-24T02:01:21-05:00

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Humility And Prayer: Finding God In The Present Moment

Last updated on: September 24, 2025 at 2:01 am By Henry Karlson

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Humility is important. We can and should be self-critical, but we should not be so self-critical that we end up hating ourselves, incapable of seeing how and why God loves us. We need to be honest with ourselves. We need to accept our imperfections, for then, when we strive to move beyond them, we will be able to accept our need for God’s grace to do so. We must not think we can do it all by ourselves. We should... Read more

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Sayings of the Desert Fathers

2025-09-22T03:17:49-05:00

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Propaganda And Martyrdom: From Horst Wessel To Charlie Kirk

Last updated on: September 22, 2025 at 3:17 am By Henry Karlson

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One of the ways the Nazis controlled the general populace was through propaganda. Sometimes, the propaganda was aimed at creating an emotional bond with the people so that the people not only agreed to what the regime wanted, but ending up fighting, and wanting destroyed, anyone who denounced what the Nazis were doing. The propaganda encouraged citizens to report to authorities anyone who did not show proper compliance and acceptance to the Nazi regime. Those who were turned in were... Read more

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2025-09-21T02:02:41-05:00

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The Cross And Our Choices: Navigating The Path Of Love

Last updated on: September 21, 2025 at 2:02 am By Henry Karlson

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Jesus came to us to save us and the rest of the world. He wants his followers, once they have put their trust in him and joined themselves with him (in baptism), to live out their faith by following the way he lived out his life, loving the world and all of God’s creation. It is not that he expects Christians to do everything he did, for that would be impossible; rather, they should see his way of life as... Read more

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2025-09-18T05:04:08-05:00

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Feminine Representation In Theology: A Call For Balance

Last updated on: September 18, 2025 at 5:04 am By Henry Karlson

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God is without gender, and yet, we appropriate and apprehend God through various metaphors, various images which point to some element of the divine, including those with gender. Genesis tells us God have made humanity, male and female, in the divine image: “So God created man in his own image, in the image of God he created him; male and female he created them” (Gen. 1:27 RSV). There are many ways to interpret this verse. For example, one interpretation suggests... Read more

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Women in Religion

2025-09-17T02:17:29-05:00

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Liberation From Evil: God’s Promise Of Redemption

Last updated on: September 17, 2025 at 2:17 am By Henry Karlson

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What God created is good; this is why, though sometimes we speak in ways contrary to this, nothing is truly evil by nature. It’s when nature is corrupted, or defiled, so that something or someone is hindered from attaining their true natural potential, we find evil emerging. Thus, while conventionally we treat evil as some sort of thing in and of itself with its own substance or nature, in reality, it is not; evil is nothing but the defilement or... Read more

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2025-09-16T09:26:31-05:00

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The Oversimplification of Religious Faith In Modern Media

Last updated on: September 16, 2025 at 9:26 am By Henry Karlson

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When I look back to what I understood about other religions when I was young, I realize how I was influenced by how the media often portrayed them, and portrayed them incorrectly. I believed Buddhism was a nihilistic religion. I thought that Hinduism could only be a polytheistic religion. I believed Islam was a violent religion. At best, the media took a particular representation of a religion and used it to represent the whole; it ignored the complexities and differing... Read more

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2025-09-14T01:58:51-05:00

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The Cross, A Paradoxical Sign of Victory

Last updated on: September 14, 2025 at 1:58 am By Henry Karlson

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The Christian faith looks to Jesus on the cross, and with it, shows the world the cross as a sign of victory. What a paradoxical sign that is! What was done to Jesus was evil, and it should never have been done. Indeed, the cross was the instrument of that evil, and it was used, not just against Jesus, but countless numbers of people by the Roman Empire. Rome used it as a sign of its power and control, and... Read more

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2025-09-11T09:23:08-05:00

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Embracing Humility: The Key To Effective Leadership

Last updated on: September 11, 2025 at 9:23 am By Henry Karlson

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Pride and vainglory are twin evils which convince us that what we want to do is right, even if it is not. They have us believe ourselves to be so great that we can do no wrong. They have us end up thinking others should recognize our greatness and bow to our will. If they don’t, if they resist us, we become angry and judge and condemn others out of our rage. Often, we judge them based upon petty, minor... Read more

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