Spring Magazine: "Bury The Past"

Isn't it funny how an incident--the unexpected meeting of an old friend, a song, a particular smell or a letter--will trigger memories? It's sort of like opening a door to a room you haven't visited for a long time. You look at one thing, then another, and another. Pretty soon you're lost among all the memories that room recalls.

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Christmas Magazine: "If You Need Therapy..."

I'm a scrooge at Christmas...and that's especially hard when you look like Santa Claus. I don't know about you, but there are a number of reasons why I don't like Christmas. I'm an adult child of an alcoholic. People like us don't often have wonderful Christmas memories and, not only that, we're big into control. At Christmas, everything is abnormal and out of control.

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Summer Magazine: "I Give You Permission"

A Christian philosophy of boldness should include the believer's rights. In fact, it would be incomplete without a list of believer's rights.

I used to teach that a believer has no rights...I was wrong.

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Spring Magazine: "So What?"

Do you ever wonder if the Christian faith is true? Perhaps it's late at night just before you go to sleep. Maybe you're going through a tough time or an unbelieving friend makes fun of your faith and you think--but, of course, would never say--that all of this might just be some gigantic con game, that you've been told a bunch of lies by slick and educated preachers who conned themselves before they conned you.

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