Author: Steven
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Rock
Way back in the early years of the Jesus movement there was this group from southern California named Love Song. They were a rock group before they became Christians, but they were all searching for the truth, the meaning of life. In their search, they came across this church called Calvary Chapel in Costa Mesa, where the…
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Turn Around
For my wife and I, it has been our great joy to have the opportunity to have two children and see them grow from tiny newborns to college age. We have experienced the pleasure, the pain, and the responsibilty of protecting them, nurturing them, and helping them to become adults who may, in turn, take…
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Repulsive
As a followup to my last post, here is another song that deals with the example of Jesus to love the unloved (and sometimes unloveable). Rachel Scott usually introduces this song in concert by telling a story about Mother Teresa of India. She once encountered a man who was deformed by disease. She didn’t just…
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Unloved
Last Sunday was Life Sunday, when we remember the sanctity of life. At my church we had a panel of five local ministry leaders with whom our pastor talked during the sermon time. We heard from: AAA Center For Pregnancy Counseling, working to encourage women to seek alternatives to abortion when facing an unplanned pregnanacy Embrace…