This Lesson of the Lots

Reading Time: 4 minutes If I asked you to illustrate the concept of chance or randomness with a single image, an icon if you will, what would you choose? For me, the first thing that comes to mind is a pair of dice. Playing games with my children when they were younger, one of…

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A Thankless Education

Reading Time: 3 minutes I’m convinced that one of the greatest and long-lasting blessings of the Covid-19 era will be all of the children who exited our government schools. Google the phrase “Mass Exodus from public schools” and you will find numerous stories detailing some 1 million families who have permanently left their community…

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What Seeds Have to Say

Reading Time: 4 minutes Watermelons have always been synonymous with summer for me. As far back as I can remember, I’ve enjoyed the delightful sweetness of this fruit at picnics or munching those grainy red cubes while basking bare-chested beside a swimming pool or lake. My father used to place them in a net…

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The Patriarchy of Pollen & The Virgin Birth

Reading Time: 5 minutes I have been following a YouTube channel for a while now that focuses on refuting the Calvinist perspective in each episode. The host of these videos, Leighton Flowers, seems to be a very kind man and produces these videos with very little acrimony towards those with whom he disagrees. He…

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Leaving the Deadly Loop

Reading Time: 5 minutes In a recent online discussion I was having, the idea of “God is love” came up, with the intention of showing that a particular doctrine I was holding could not be true, because “God is love.” I’m thankful for conversations like these because they cause me to dig into what…

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The Regurgitation of a Nation

Reading Time: 4 minutes Of all the ways one can suffer from passing sicknesses, like colds and flu with their stuffy noses, headaches, and sore throats, I think none is so awful as a stomach virus. Its fury is usually brief, but the rage with which it refuses to allow anything to stay in…

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Rows of Silent Witnesses

Reading Time: 5 minutes I had the sad honor of participating in two funerals since the beginning of the year. One was of a beloved uncle and the other was my father-in-law. Both were very godly men, and so their funerals were full of the remembrance of redeeming legacies and the hope of future…

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A Blanket of Brightness

Reading Time: 3 minutes It seems fitting to me that the two poles of our planet are covered in snow since there is hardly any other weather condition so polarizing as that fluffy white stuff. People generally fall into one of two camps, they either love it or hate it, with very few in…

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A Certain Expectation

Reading Time: 4 minutes Several months ago I wrote a blog post on bravery entitled An Immaterial Breeze. In it, I mentioned Paul’s trio of things that remain – Faith, Hope, and Love. I remember thinking at the time that Faith and Love have received their fair share of consideration over the years, but…

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