Category Archives: Lifestyle

You Have a Tell (We All Do)

Posted on December 6, 2025 by salooper57

…the words we generate over a lifetime are like “fingerprints.” Even small words – what he calls “stealth words,” like pronouns (I, you, we, they) and prepositions (to, for, over) – “broadcast the kind of people we are.” Continue reading →

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How Do You Identify?

Posted on July 12, 2025 by salooper57

Poised between two identities, we are faced with the decision to repent, which is so much more than turning from our sins. It is a turning from our identity, a losing of ourselves (our soul, our ψυχή) in order to become someone new… Continue reading →

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Living in an Imported Culture

Posted on March 15, 2025 by salooper57

If you are caught selling chewing gum in Singapore, you could be incarcerated for up to two years and be fined $100,000. Continue reading →

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Will God Really Give Us the Desires of Our Hearts?

Posted on February 15, 2025 by salooper57

If there had been Facebook then, one can imagine a twenty-year-old Israelite man posting pictures of himself relaxing by a fire, holding hands with his bride as they walked along Galilee’s lakeshore, and putting their feet up on a Sunday afternoon. It was enough to make an Amalekite army grunt green with envy. Continue reading →

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Time for a Change

Posted on February 4, 2025 by salooper57

Do you know what it means if you do what everyone else does and desire the same things they desire? It means you have been assimilated…. if you are pursuing the same goals, valuing the same stuff, and spending time the same way as everyone else, you’re not living here as a foreigner. Continue reading →

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A Poster Child for the Jesus-Way of Life

Posted on November 23, 2024 by salooper57

Everything Christians do and say reflects on Jesus and on his Father. We are all influencers. The Christian is a poster child for Jesus’s way of life. Continue reading →

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Desire Shapes Us. What Shapes Desire?

Posted on September 21, 2024 by salooper57

Desires guide and move us, but if our desires are not really ours – they have been implanted in us by peers and colleagues, television and media –where will they guide us? Continue reading →

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Religious Adventure: It’s Not an Oxymoron

Posted on August 3, 2024 by salooper57

Prayer needn’t be an exercise in boredom—not if it is done right. It can be the door to adventure. Continue reading →

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How to Find Freedom From Anger

Posted on May 25, 2024 by salooper57

A professor at the University of Texas once gave students an unusual assignment: if you have ever thought about killing someone, write an essay about it. 91 percent of the men and 84 percent of the women handed in detailed, … Continue reading →

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All the Adventure You Will Ever Need

Posted on October 28, 2023 by salooper57

I think I had the same preacher when I was younger. It seems like a crime to bore people with the most remarkable story ever told, so I have worked hard to keep sermons interesting. Nevertheless, when talking about selling … Continue reading →

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