The small shabby and tattered room began to fill with a white cloud of smoke, almost a mist, that moved among us, in and out, weaving like a fog. My head was bowed in prayer and when I tried to lift it, I couldn’t, as if some unseen hand was pressing down on me. I […]

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“God could never forgive me,” Natasha was almost whispering. We sat in her small Soviet kitchen on the outskirts of Moscow in one of the more modern clusters of apartment buildings constructed to appease the restless intelligentsia. Though not luxurious by any stretch of the imagination, the apartment was cozy and clean—especially Natasha’s kitchen. Natasha […]

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“You know Teri. You are no Corrie ten Boom, right? I mean you know that!”   The words would have hurt more if Marianne’s face hadn’t been so angelic. She thought, as my new friend, she was doing me a big favor by giving me a reality check, but in reality, she was crushing me […]

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I’ve always said that for the persecuted church in China, it didn’t matter if the word tribulation was a capital T or a lower case. When it’s your family being killed right in front of you, it is TRIBULATION. During World War II, Corrie Ten Boom (1892-1983) and her family were arrested by the Nazis […]

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A friend sent me a video two weeks ago of a church he absolutely loves to watch out of Omaha, Nebraska. I clicked on the link and in less than 30 seconds I knew exactly what I was up against. It.Was.Horrid. It was Jim Bakker horrid. It was Benny Hinn horrid. It was charlatan horrid. […]

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By definition equity means an equal outcome. Equality is that both Daryl and I have value to God; equality means that we are equal under the eyes of the law; equality means than one is not better than the other. Equity means that we have an equal outcome. If we do the same thing, we […]

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I guess everyone has heard about New Zealand’s evolved decision to let a man compete as a woman in the Olympics. No, it’s not in synchronized swimming or women’s beach volleyball. Of course not! It’s in weightlifting. One thing I think we all can agree on is that men have greater upper body strength than […]

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Daryl and I listened to Eric Metaxas yesterday. He gave a message at Cornerstone Chapel in Leesburg, Virginia, last week. Metaxas is always fun to listen to, though he has a tendency to go off on bunny trails. He’s a much better writer than speaker. In his message he reiterated Benjamin Franklin’s famous words, “It’s […]

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A friend of mine responded to a terrible national tragedy a few years ago, “Well! God is in control!” I’m never quite sure what to do with statements like that. They become clichés and in my opinion, they trivialize the trauma and suffering of others—as if God planned it or intended it to happen. Are […]

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John Piper’s son is making quite a stir these days. Abraham Piper has gone full-blown, hate-filled atheist and taken his anger and rage to social media. His TikTok posts last week were nothing short of sacrilege. He got 15 million views on his posts and has over three million followers. He’s outrageous – in the […]

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