A couple months ago, I looked at my calendar and realized that Easter Sunday and April Fools’ Day fall on the same day this year. How appropriate, I thought. God is trying to show us something! It’s possible, of course, that this is a coincidence. But I don’t think so, and for good reason: […]

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I had a pretty disturbing dream not that long ago. In this dream, my brother and I were at some sort of large Christian festival. The particular worship gathering we were at was outdoors, and there were thousands of people there. As we looked around, we saw that many of the people there had guns […]

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According to a story I once heard, a man needed his house repainted – and he wanted it all painted red. It just so happened that the painter the man hired was a real cheapskate, and only bought one can of red paint. He figured he could paint the whole house with it, watering it […]

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