Category Archives: Christianity

Shall He Be King? (Jesus on Palm Sunday)

Posted on April 15, 2025 by salooper57

As we go through life, doing our work, struggling over hardships, helping others for Christ’s sake, we don’t realize that God is using these things to build us. We won’t fully realize that until we stand before the Lord in glory. Continue reading →

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Potential, Choice, and the Cost of Being Real

Posted on April 12, 2025 by salooper57

I have paid (and continue to pay) the piper of potentiality. What I have received for that payment has been me—not a potential me, but the real-deal, existential me. I hope I’ve been worth the price. Continue reading →

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The Strange Disappearance of St. Peter

Posted on April 5, 2025 by salooper57

But something in him did die that night: his self-confidence, self-importance, and misplaced sense of honor. Continue reading →

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The End of All Things: It’s Near

Posted on April 2, 2025 by salooper57

When Peter tells us to love each other, he knows it will be a stretch for us. It will take us out of our comfort zone, but that is where people usually meet God. Continue reading →

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Seeing with the Mind’s Eye

Posted on March 29, 2025 by salooper57

…faith is not seeing the outcome we want but seeing the God we serve. Faith sees him who is invisible to the outward eye but perceptible to the eyes of the heart, and it sees him when circumstances are favorable and when they are ruinous… Continue reading →

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Quoting Bible Verses (in an MRI machine)

Posted on March 28, 2025 by salooper57

I’ve always heard that bravery is not the absence of fear but doing what needs to be done even when you are afraid. Today, I’ll find out how brave I am. Continue reading →

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Eveready (video)

Posted on March 27, 2025 by salooper57

This is our hope. Every other hope in humanity’s history, whether religious (think Islam or Buddhism), humanistic (think socialism or communism), or scientific (think Peter Thiel and Elon Musk) pales before the grand hope that is ours. Continue reading →

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Eveready

Posted on March 25, 2025 by salooper57

Thank God that the world will be judged! Thank God that we shall be judged. We want there to be a judgment, not because we will be proved right but because we will be put right. Continue reading →

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Is Your Gospel Missing Something?

Posted on March 22, 2025 by salooper57

I was afraid of the Judgment. I don’t need to search far to find things that I have said, thought, and done that exposed me as a sinner—and sometimes a fool. The idea that all that will be revealed—how could anyone speak of that as good news? Continue reading →

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Submission Is for the Mission

Posted on March 20, 2025 by salooper57

The biblical context makes it clear that wives are not the only ones instructed to submit. This submission cannot be about male superiority since three of the four times Peter instructs people to submit, men are the ones submitting. Continue reading →

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