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Unmet Longings: More Than Meets the Eye

“If we find ourselves with a desire that nothing in this world can satisfy, the most probable explanation is that we were made for another world.” —C.S. Lewis

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A Personal POV of the Phone Phenomenon

“New technologies alter the structure of our interests: the things we think about. They alter the character of our symbols: the things we think with. And they alter the nature of community: the arena in which thoughts develop.” —Neil Postman

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Where Is Prayer? Part One: Broken Prayer

“I pray because I can't help myself. I pray because I'm helpless. I pray because the need flows out of me all the time, waking and sleeping. It doesn't change God. It changes me.” —C.S. Lewis

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Loss and Longing During Lent

“…God rewards fasting because fasting expresses the cry of the heart that nothing on the earth can satisfy our souls besides God. God must reward this cry because God is most glorified in us when we are most satisfied in him.” —John Piper

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The 500 Challenge

“The most valuable of all talents is that of never using two words when one will do.” —Thomas Jefferson

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Fighting the Ferocious Force That Is Fear

“Fear, he is a liar

He will take your breath

Stop you in your steps

Fear, he is a liar

He will rob your rest

Steal your happiness

Cast your fear in the fire

'Cause fear, he is a liar.”

—Zach Williams

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A Sudoku Soliloquy (Sort Of…)

“The most beautiful thing we can experience is the mysterious. It is the source of all true art and all science. He to whom this emotion is a stranger, who can no longer pause to wonder and stand rapt in awe, is as good as dead: his eyes are closed.” —Albert Einstein

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New Year, New Mercies

Lamentations 3:22-24 “The steadfast love of the Lord never ceases; his mercies never come to an end; they are new every morning; great is your faithfulness. ‘The Lord is my portion,’ says my soul, ‘therefore I will hope in him.’”

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Stop Shoulding Yourself

“Perfectionism is the voice of the oppressor, the enemy of the people. It will keep you insane your whole life.” —Anne Lamott

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