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The “L” Word

Posted on October 25, 2012April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

  Love The doctrine of the love of God is among the hardest to articulate. Forget defining the love of God; just think a second or two about the nature of love itself. What are the first images that come to mind? Perhaps it’s from a film, where despite all the obstacles the handsome boy gets…

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Sacred Storytellers

Posted on October 18, 2012April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

Growing up as a child in a Christian home, I was always told that the Scriptures were sacred. They were God-breathed. Divine. Different from other sorts of stories and books, they were set apart. We were not to laugh when we read the Bible. Reading the Bible was an ongoing act of discipline. It was…

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The Grace of Failure

Posted on October 11, 2012April 6, 2021 by ptsblog

I handed in my church history test, convinced I had failed. Not in the overly dramatic sense of not getting a perfect but a serious acknowledgement at my impending very, very bad grade. I was angry at myself, for all the time I had invested studying with the output being sub par, worried that my grade…

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