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Since I mentioned Sara Groves in an earlier post about Francesca Battistelli's If We're Honest , I thought that I'd put this vid...

The 1974 LP, 461 Ocean Boulevard , was a comeback project for Eric Clapton, having successfully entered recovery from his cocaine addiction....

This song from 2014 is amazing. Battistelli has a beautiful voice, reminding me of Sara Groves. The lyrics are so incredible. They'r...

TCM featured one of my favorite movies tonight, Billy Wilder's Sabrina . It was released in 1954 and starring Humphrey Bogart (my absol...

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Four days ago, Pastor Dennis Di Mauro, on Facebook, posted a link to an article detailing the recent votes of the Evangelical Lutheran Churc...

"You may think that fidgeting and not making eye contact are telltale signs that someone’s lying to you," writes Jenna Goudreau at...

Michael Kelley is right in saying that 1 Timothy 6:10 is one of the best known and most misunderstood passages in Scripture . There, the a...

A few years ago, I learned that a friend openly admitted his guilt to an ethical transgression. But he didn't see what the big deal was....

... follow Christ .

When's best time to respond to your critics? 2 o’clock in the morning when you’re asleep and everything you think will never be writte...

During my quiet time on Monday morning, I considered 1 Corinthians 12 in the New Testament. I was particularly struck by verse 18: ...in f...

From our son, Pastor Philip Daniels : When we are too busy loving our brothers and sisters, it is hard to find time to demonize them or wr...

Pascal-Emmanuel Gobry argues that they should be. While it's good that teens are having fewer babies, he argues: It used to be taken f...

This week, I've attended Lutheran Week , the annual family reunion of the North American Lutheran Church (NALC) that includes the gathe...

It makes little sense . That's why Malcolm Gladwell says the Olympics should be split out by events in various cities and countries . ...

The apostle Paul is often portrayed as a rigid sexist. You can isolate passages from Paul's New Testament writings to force such a messa...

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Luke 12:22-34 Some of the worst tragedies I’ve witnessed as a pastor have had their roots in what people thought gave their lives value. M...

Love this line: Everything that kills me makes me feel alive That can be taken several ways. One way is hinted at in the line, "...