Yeah, yeah, yeah, que no pare la fiesta! Don’t stop the party!” Pitbull’s rap music blares over the loudspeaker in the parking lot. About 60 participants follow Zumba® instructor Gonzalo…
Martin Luther King Jr.’s dream requires “praying with feet.”
“I can’t wait!” Children say it all the time. They can’t wait for their birthday, for dessert, for it to snow, and then for the snow to melt .… But…
She is an inspiration from a time when women had few rights.
My wife deserved more than a husband so burdened with sadness.
Family means no one gets left behind.
A life defined by silence and prayer? Who has time for that?
We did not know that there was any other version.
You ordained for everything a season.
Even the most popular had no more than five mentions each: “Abide With Me”; “Children of the Heavenly Father”; “Amazing Grace”; “A Mighty Fortress”; “Beautiful Savior”; “I Was There to…
After a failed attempt to kill Hitler, the authorities treated Bonhoeffer the way any government would have treated an insurgent.
Paul tells us: “God is faithful, and he will not let you be tested beyond your strength but with your testing he will also provide the way out so that you may be able to endure it” (1 Corinthians 10:13). Over time that promise has become abbreviated to “God will never give you more than you can handle.” Like many others, I’ve derived comfort from these words, though I know God does not “give” me loss, pain and grief.
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