When I was a professor at university, I had a colleague who had been educated at a private Catholic boarding school run by British nuns. She had some stories about
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High apple pie, in the sky hope
“Next time you’re found with your chin on the ground there is a lot to be learned so look around.” That’s the beginning of a song I used to teach
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Last Sunday, Pastor Ken talked about the gift of Christmas. And Christmas, in our Western culture, is about gifts. The idea of gifts is so prevailing that even Jewish people
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Francis Schaeffer was a great evangelical theologian who wrote some amazing books in the 20th century. His great merit was that he sought to give a Christian response to the
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Few songs are as recognizable as Journey’s Don’t Stop Believin’. Its unmistakable beginning chords instantly make people start moving and even mimicking its famous and contagious guitar riff (I am
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I grew up in Argentina, a country where people do not usually say thank you. Argentines are known around the world for very unpleasant things. An old saying says that
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