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That Christmas Spirit

Listening to Allen Jones on Kinship Christian Radio the week before Thanksgiving was like... like a writer struggling to come up with words to describe a junkie anticipating his next fix without offending the junkie. Now, before…

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Praisegiving

The Sea of Galilee, taken from the Mount of Beatitudes. (Photo by author.) There have only been a few times in my life when I got a glimpse of the real magnitude of the love of God. The first one was when I was maybe…

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Godtown

For regular readers of this blog, you may remember that I went on a trip to Israel last May with about 30 other people. Three of those people were affiliated with a ministry called, "Godtown." That's a pretty…

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Answers. Light. Hope!

It is once again time for Kinship Christian Radio's Share-A-Thon! It's a glorious, wonderful, amazing, and very busy time for the staff of Kinship Christian Radio. Of course, I very much…

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Ask

A dear sister in Christ recently showed me something in Scripture I had not noticed before. Luke 11 begins with one of the disciples asking Jesus to teach all of them to pray and from this, Jesus teaches them the Lord's Prayer.…

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Even When the Rains Come

About a year ago, I joined a mission team that ventured to a small town in southeast Texas called Vidor to help fix homes damaged by the 60 inches of rain dumped on them by Hurricane Harvey in 2017. ( See "Kin" in the blog archive.) About…