Origins
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I Will Pray With You
This is a guest post by my youngest son Jesse. I’ve realized something about myself… I love praying for people. Not because I have everything figured out. I don’t. Not because my faith has always been perfect. It hasn’t. But I know what it feels like to go through seasons where you’re carrying bad things…
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ASK
Scripture tells us, “Ask and it will be given to you; search, and you will find; knock and the door will be open for you. Everyone who asks receives, and everyone who searches finds; for everyone who knocks the door will be opened ” That’s Matthew 7:7 and 8. Miracles are within our grasp every…
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In the Beginning Was the Word
Earlier this week, my friend Bill in Denver shared an hour-long video with me entitled “Three Scientists on the Origins of Everything.” I decided to listen to it because in recent months, I’ve been engaged in two activities: Reading the Bible in a year on the Hallow app, and in a Bible study group with…
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Jesus Will Open the Door
I first conceptualized an afterlife without hell as I researched and wrote The Hamsa, my second novel set primarily in Poland from 1908 – 1945. Published in 2010, the researching and writing process took a full three years. During those three years, given the subject matter culminating in Auschwitz, I frequently contemplated good and evil,…
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Speak up
Have you ever had something on the tip of your tongue but chose not to say it so as not to rock the boat? I think we’ve all had that experience. Earlier this week in his minute homily, Father Mike Schmitz made a profound statement that will stay with me for a long time. He…
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The World Played Chess
I just finished reading The World Played Chess by Robert Dugoni. Without hesitation, I can say it ranks among the top five books I’ve read in my 76 years of reading. My list also includes Gates of Fire, The Book Thief, Winter’s Tale, and To Kill a Mockingbird. This month, I emptied my bookshelves. Over…