Category Archives: Spiritual life

Joy: It’s Not Optional

Posted on December 17, 2025 by salooper57

And he will say: “Child, I know all, and we will talk about those things. But first, you must tell me why you were not more joyful. Do you have any explanation for that? Because, if you had just been more joyful, the grudge, the divorce, the cheating never would have happened.” Continue reading →

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Peace: What It Is, How to Experience It

Posted on December 10, 2025 by salooper57

Ms. Fader said, “If you’re a human being … and you’re not anxious, there’s something wrong with you.” Or just maybe, there is something right with you. Maybe what’s right, or what’s coming right, are your relationships. Continue reading →

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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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Is Something Missing from Your Thanksgiving Celebration?

Posted on November 29, 2025 by salooper57

An ungrateful spirit testifies against us that our God is too small. He is not the God of Abraham and the Fear of Isaac. He is not the great and terrible God of Israel, who “is in heaven, and does whatever he pleases” (Psalm 115:3, CSB). Continue reading →

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Stopping too Soon: A Comedic Trope, an Exegetical Fallacy

Posted on November 22, 2025 by salooper57

We read that and either have a conniption at the sexist unfairness of it or we weaponize it and use it to force believing wives to toe the proverbial line. Continue reading →

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Become Your True Self (Pt. 3: Put on a New Self)

Posted on November 19, 2025 by salooper57

Humans were designed this way. They were made with the capacity to transform into something the Marvel Cinematic Universe never imagined, something that can be astonishingly good and beautiful or hideously bad and ugly. Continue reading →

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Weeping When You Should Rejoice

Posted on November 15, 2025 by salooper57

I suspect that trying to figure out the Book of Revelation (what every image stands for, every biblical citation connotes—what the number 666 is all about!) is not the way to go about it. Continue reading →

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Become Your True Self (Part 2 of 3)

Posted on November 13, 2025 by salooper57

We think of conversion as a point-in-time event – “I got converted in 1973” – because we think of ourselves as point-in-time beings. But it is not and neither are we. Conversion is not an event but a process, and it does not conclude in a moment. It is much bigger than that. Continue reading →

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The 3-D Marriage

Posted on November 8, 2025 by salooper57

Finding Mr. or Ms. Right does not guarantee a successful marriage, but when each member of the couple becomes the person God intends them to be, it does. Continue reading →

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Become Your True Self

Posted on November 5, 2025 by salooper57

The fulfilled you, the forever you, beckons you on. People mistake that beckoning for hunger, boredom, sexual desire, ambition, but it is more enduring than any of these. To use the theological term, your soul’s deep longing is to be glorified. Continue reading →

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