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Where the Empty Places Shine
There are distances the map can’t measure— those long, invisible miles between one heartbeat and another. Sometimes they open like canyons cut by disappointment, sometimes like frost on a window no one meant to close. Illness can hush a room, silencing the familiar footsteps; discord can turn a family tree into winter branches, each twig…
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The Real Dilemma of Our Age—And the Hope That Still Holds Us
People today live with a strange mixture of the familiar and the unfamiliar. The old landmarks of human experience still stand—birth, love, loss, joy, sorrow, choices, and consequences. These things have shaped every generation since Adam drew his first breath. “There is no new thing under the sun” (Ecclesiastes 1:9), and in many ways the…
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Fireside Reflection on the Family of God
Pull your chair for this one—because the word we’re about to touch is tender for almost everybody: family. For some, that word feels like a warm quilt—shared meals, inside jokes, people who show up. For others, it feels more like a bruise—silences that never got healed, words that went too deep, empty chairs that still…
Star for the Journey 