Happy New Year, all!  This is indeed a new year, young and impressionable, and full of possibility.  It is hungry for worth and a place in greatest history all its own.  It is ready to leave mistakes and evils behind, to let shortcomings be truly shortcoming and exhausted by the elder years.  What a great day this is, this New Year's Day!

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The empty, Roman cross... Who would've ever thought it would become a symbol of power? Then, again, who would've ever thought that the Kingdom of God lives, despite the brokenness and wickedness in ourselves and all around us? The King has come. He has absorbed our crimes and the wrath that sought us. He died for the sin of this world. Yet, ( Read more... )

What life is wasted! What cruelty it is when he who is gifted with premier ability is afflicted with severe laziness. This evening I spoke with a beloved peer who studies seven times more than myself! If I studied twice as much as I do (which isn't much) than I'd have straight A's! A very wise professor at the seminary insisted that, "for some ( Read more... )

Good morning guys and girls. That's right, a morning post! Well, I've pretty much wasted the summer... seriously. So today is the day I start being about thirty times more productive. On the plus side, however, these last two days I've been playing on my keyboard, memorizing "From the Squalor Of A Borrowed Stable" & "Beautiful Savior (All My ( Read more... )

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Wow... I have so wanted to be able to tell people that I've always held love for them. I wish I could tell my friends that I've always enjoyed their presence. I wish I could tell my parents that I have always been thankful for all that they've done. I wish I could tell my fellow Christians that I've always looked up to them. But most of all, I ( Read more... )