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On being alive 

“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon enough.”

– Ernest Hemingway 

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“Try to learn to breathe deeply, really to taste food when you eat, and when you sleep, really to sleep. Try as much as possible to be wholly alive with all your might, and when you laugh, laugh like hell. And when you get angry, get good and angry. Try to be alive. You will be dead soon...

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On being alive 

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Reflections on Gratitude and the Holy Supper Is not the cup of thanksgiving for which we give thanks a participation in the blood of Christ?

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Reflections on Gratitude and the Holy Supper

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God's Plan For You is to Be a Gardener

God’s Plan For You is to Be a Gardener

A couple of weeks ago I had a sudden impulse to have a garden.

I bought some soil and some planters and the next you know I was in my garden gloves, watering basil, tomatoes and cucumbers in a raised garden bed made of an old bookshelf. The idea of having a garden sounds nice, but unless I learn to prune and water it, it’s going to die. If I want it to flourish, I will need to be intentionally…

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God's Plan For You is to Be a Gardener

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on how busyness is laziness

on how busyness is laziness

“I want to appear important. What better way than to be busy? The incredible hours, the crowded schedule, and the heavy demands of my time are proof to myself and to all who will notice – that I am important. …I live in a society in which crowded schedules and harassed conditions are evidence of importance, so I develop a crowded schedule and harassed conditions. When others notice, they…

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“I want to appear important. What better way than to be busy? The incredible hours, the crowded schedule, and the heavy demands of my time are proof to myself and to all who will notice – that I am important. …I live in a society in which crowded schedules and harassed conditions are evi...

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on how busyness is laziness

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Be A Farmer: How to Experience Transformation

Be A Farmer: How to Experience Transformation

If you’ve been a Christian for longer than a week you know that you can’t transform your heart through sheer determination and willpower.

The Bibletalks about sin as a condition so deeply ingrained in the heart that it works its way out through the body (Ro. 7:5). Jesus spoke of this as well when he said that “out of the abundance of the heart the mouth speaks.” He was addressing the external…

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Be A Farmer: How to Experience Transformation

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Learning to Lament in the Midst of Tragedy

Learning to Lament in the Midst of Tragedy

Every day, we encounter people who are suffering because of loss, instability, pain or regret. And every day, Christians are offering intellectual answers to the emotional turmoil that so many victims of tragedy experience.

Too often, Christians look up their favourite suffering-will-make-me-a-better-person verse and stamp them on the victims of tragic turmoil, as if they can now remove…

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Learning to Lament in the Midst of Tragedy

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The One Thing You Need to Stop Doing with the Bible

The One Thing You Need to Stop Doing with the Bible

It’s become increasingly clear in our day that people would much rather usethe Bible  than be used by the Bible. The Bible has become a book for anyone to dissect and use for their own purposes. Though it has been used to inspire good in the world, it has also been falsely used as a means to justify violence, racism, slavery, hatred, and murder. Even today—through the impersonal means of social…

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The One Thing You Need to Stop Doing with the Bible

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Luc Ferry on Salvation

Luc Ferry on Salvation

“I would like you to imagine that you own a magic wand which allows you to arrange matters so that everyone in the world today begins to observe to the letter the ideal of respect for others embodied in humanist principles. Suppose that, everywhere in the world, the rights of man were scrupulously observed, with everyone paying respect to the dignity of everyone else and the equal right of each…

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Pray: Learning to be Present to Jesus

Pray: Learning to be Present to Jesus

For you created my inmost being;      you knit me together in my mother’s womb. I praise you because I am fearfully and wonderfully made;      your works are wonderful,      I know that full well. My frame was not hidden from you      when I was made in the secret place      when I was woven together in the depths of the earth. Your eyes saw my unformed body;      all the days ordained for me…

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5 Reasons You Should Start Using Evernote Now

5 Reasons You Should Start Using Evernote Now

I’m always on the lookout for the next note-taking, task-making, or time-saving productivity apps out there. If you’re like me, it might take you two or three tries before you get “hooked” to a new app or software. My first attempt at using Evernote didn’t last very long but on my second try I have found that there’s much to gain from this little note-taking app. If you’re a writer, a thinker, a…