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Six seconds that can change your life

By Chris Jackson

September 30, 2020

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When a person receives stimulating news of any sort, and especially news of an agitating, frustrating, or hurtful sort, there is an immediate flare-up of emotion that accompanies the news. Like a match flame that flares upon striking, but then subsides within a few seconds, these emotions tend to immediately…

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The One another commands (more needed than ever)

By Chris Jackson

July 15, 2020

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Today, we humans are rapidly losing our ability to lovingly and constructively relate with one another, and it is damaging us more deeply than we realize. We should change this. The New Testament gives us more than fifty “one another” commands, and if we actually practiced them, the entire ethos…

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When you are the villain in someone else's story

By Chris Jackson

December 3, 2019

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When you and I consider the story of our lives, we probably do not self-identify as the villain. In thinking through our histories, most of us identify as the hero of our tale. And that’s good! We are indeed called to model the heroic attributes of sacrifice, courage, and overcoming…

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Acting how you want to feel--fake or faith?

By Chris Jackson

September 12, 2019

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Don’t you hate interacting with people who present themselves as sincere but you can tell that they really aren’t? It’s kind of a bummer to relate with fake, phony people. Sometimes people act loving when they’re not, and it is both shallow and annoying. On the other hand, sometimes people…

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Which first day is harder for parents: kindergarten or a senior year of high school?

By Chris Jackson

August 20, 2019

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“The days are long the years are brief.” That’s how someone described the parental passage of time to me once, and it is probably true. Time usually doesn’t feel like it is flying by while it is happening, but when we look back it is easy to gasp and wonder,…

Relationships

Six seconds that can change your life

The One another commands (more needed than ever)

When you are the villain in someone else's story

Acting how you want to feel--fake or faith?

Which first day is harder for parents: kindergarten or a senior year of high school?

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