This is my costume this year. I think it might be my most favorite ever. (For a peek at school-aged Joy, check out the Halloween greeting on Deeper Story today.) What will you be dressing up as this year? What was your favorite costume? (No Life:Unmasked link-up today, since many of us will be donning…

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One of the blogs I discovered via my weekly Life:Unmasked link-up is Tanya Marlow’s Thorns and Gold. If you haven’t read her yet, you really must. She writes about faith and suffering from the perspective of the sufferer, having been diagnosed with a chronic autoimmune disease known as M.E. (Myalgic Encephalomyelits) six years ago. She is often…

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Today I’m contributing to Seth Haines’ current series “the creeping prosperity gospel.” Please read all the posts. It is so very important that we address this head-on. Nothing fills me with more rage than the prosperity gospel. In a nutshell, “the prosperity gospel” is the idea perpetuated by the likes of TBN and Joel Osteen…

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He squatted and jumped and waved his arms as he tried to remember the words to the song. “I’m in-right outright upright downright …” he paused, confused. I recognized it immediately. “Happy all the time,” I sang, and he joined me, grinning. Then he dashed away, leaving me to finish the song in my head.…

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The objections are as ugly as they are predictable. “Jesus said we will always have the poor with us. If He says we can’t actually eliminate poverty, why bother trying?” “If they are poor, they must be lazy. They made their bed, now they can lie in it.” “Why help foreigners when our own people…

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sunset with cross

Last week I wrote about a news story spreading like wild fire that Bob Marshall, delegate to the Virginia legislature, stated that disabled children are a judgment from God on women who have had abortions. I did further research over the weekend, and it turns out, that news story had many inaccuracies. I took that…

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