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What’s the Big Deal About a Virgin Birth?

Ask most people about Jesus and his birth from a virgin mother and you are likely to get many answers. It was prophesied… so it had to happen in order to fulfill prophecy and some might say it had to happen to show Jesus was supernatural.  Okay… but why was a virgin birth a MUST? My friends at Interlink have summarized it here… because it really is a big, huge deal: Warning! Theology ahead! So, why is a virgin birth...

You did not get here alone…

      Think about your family growing up.  Every family has unspoken rules.  You grow up, slowly being informed of these rules through family behavior.  Think about these questions: How did you handle conflict? What was the family method for solving problems? Was forgiveness obvious and regular? Did you often see forgiveness asked for and given? How did your family communicate? Who was typically in control? Was your family quiet or loud? Did you have dinner together… if so…...

Tis The Season… of Bad Blood

    Okay, okay, Harley.  I heard you.  There is evil in me that hurts all of my relationships (see part one of Tis The Season… Of Bad Blood on Soundcloud).  But what about the bad things people do to me? Fair question.  Your relationships are not only harmed by what you do and say…   You are also hurt by others.   Let me share with you what I learned from a mentor. Sometimes we hurt them.  Sometimes they hurt us....

#SHC6060 Let’s do this!

The Barna research group reported that “Of more than 70 moral behaviors we study, when we compare Christians to non-Christians we rarely find substantial differences.”     Something is terribly wrong. Perhaps this, even though not written directly about us, describes us: Matthew 13:15  “For the hearts of these people are hardened, and their ears cannot hear, and they have closed their eyes—so their eyes cannot see, and their ears cannot hear, and their hearts cannot understand, and they cannot turn to...