This song was possible written in the 9th century as a Latin hymn. I find it unbelievably astounding that this song has managed to dazzle and impress us for over 1000 years.
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What does it look like to walk out our Christian faith at work?
My eyes smarted and a deep anger rose up in me that I couldn’t totally understand. “We can’t do that! That’s not the point!” I blurted out in frustration. My coworker just stood there looking at me, visibly clenching his jaw shut. Instead of further discussing it, we took a break rather than pointlessly arguing. And the longer I worked…
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Every time the Olympics are on I start thinking about Cool Runnings. Cool Runnings is one of my favorite movies of all time. If you haven’t ever seen it (and I really think you should), the movie is about the first Jamaican bobsled team in 1988. Three of the men on the team are Jamaican qualifying sprinters who don’t make…
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The young boy at the cash register looked annoyed but managed an angry and lackadaisical, “What do you want?” A room full of people sat nearby, trying not to lose their cool. This was one of my favorite places in town to get chicken. Usually. Today there was evidently not a manager on duty. And the four teens left in…
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What is it about movies nowadays that have us actually routing for the bad guy? After watching the second movie with my friends, they both exclaimed that they had only watched the movie because of Loki. I turned to them in complete surprise. “But, Loki is the bad guy, and not the main character, and you can’t trust anything he…
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V.I.R.G.I.N. is a book written as a seven day walk through self worth and study of scripture. LaWanna discusses her decision to remain abstinent until marriage. She also uses the acronym “virgin” to show how that decision gave her a new purpose in life and how to walk that out in our lives as well.
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Why does networking have to be so terrifying when it should really be a regular part of our life?
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The majority of the movie is about whether or not Neo believes he is chosen, important, and special. And far too often, our lives come down to the same thing. Especially in our careers. What we believe is possible for our lives, for our career goals, for God’s ability to use us comes down almost entirely to what we believe about ourselves.
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I have been on the outskirts of several outreaches where churches banned certain music, discredited our current movie culture, or burned books. And I while I understand it entirely, I also find it impossible to live by. I think the main goal of each of these movements was to take something that was a clear idol in the culture and try to get Christians not fall under that same spell by avoiding it completely. In actuality, it just makes me unaware of the problems in the culture I live in, pushing away the glimpses of beauty and promise that are there, and avoiding the very people I was meant to serve and love.
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Several of my computer programs crashed recently, and I sat with a local businessman at Lemur Technology trying to figure out what I did wrong and how to go forward. Should I avoid certain websites, get a different antivirus, or something else? His recommendation was more general than specific action steps. He said, “Treat your laptop like a vital commodity of your…
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