One day, well into her adult years, Florence Littauer’s dad invited her into a tiny back room of the little store he’d operated for decades, reached into a hiding place behind an upright piano against a back wall, and retrieved an old cigar box.
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Who of us hasn’t had the experience of saying something we wished we hadn’t said? It’s a universal issue, and it has been for centuries.
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What we believe about God’s perspective of us is one of the most impactful questions in our lives.
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In a memorable scene from a well-known comedy, a family is seated at the dinner table, and the father is saying grace. He says, “Dear tiny, infant Jesus . . .”
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It would be quite odd if you showed up to a football game and heard a ref or a player ask, “Has anyone seen the ball?” But it would be even more bizarre if someone replied, “Forget the ball! Let’s get on with the game.”
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Sooner or later, everyone gets around to asking some simple questions in life. For example, what is right and wrong? What is good and evil? In this day of eroding morals and constantly changing values, these questions are more important than ever, because we as a society have walked away from absolutes. Moral relativism is the rule of the day.
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Focus on the Family serves the culture according to five foundational pillars.
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Many of us begin our recovery by seeing that we’ve been powerless to measure up to God’s laws. Some of us, however, expect that once we’re well on the road to recovery we’ll start keeping the laws of God.
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Just as the sun’s rays illuminate and warm the Earth, so Christ is God’s glorious light that shines into the hearts of mankind. That is the point that the writer of Hebrews makes when he describes Jesus Christ—God incarnate—as “the radiance of [God’s] glory” (Hebrews 1:3).
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The word revelation has an important meaning: the manifestation or unveiling of something that has been hidden. In other words, the book of Revelation is the unveiling of God's plan for the future.
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