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The Bottom Line

Have you ever thought of your Christian faith as a last resort option? … it’s a position in which many former saints found themselves … inevitably experienced once established on the narrow Christian path … [To read more, click on title]

Healed? No? Then …

There is a difficult tension in today’s readings for me … On one hand we have in Matthew Jesus’s command to his disciples to go out into all the villages of Judea and heal the sick, raise the dead, set the demonic free and proclaim that ‘the kingdom of heaven is near.’ A powerful story of Christ’s authority and power over all that ails us in this life. Whereas … [To read more, click on title]