Steven on May 17th, 2009

Featured song: Lazarus Come Forth, from the 1984 album by Carman, Comin’ On Strong
Anyone who grew up in a church that had Sunday school classes for children was exposed at a young age to stories from the Bible. There were stories from the New Testament about Jesus, but there were also those great stories from [...]

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Steven on January 18th, 2009

Yesterday I saw “The Curious Case Of Benjamin Button“, starring Brad Pitt and Cate Blanchett. I went, thinking it would be an interesting film to see how someone is born looking very old, and ages backwards as he grows older.
Unexpectedly, I sat riveted to the screen for the entire film, not wanting to miss anything.
The [...]

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Steven on October 5th, 2008

The primary theme of this blog is “joy”. But like so many things in life, there are two sides. With joy, there is the possibility of sorrow; with victory, there is the possibility of defeat. For all of the people who hear the message of Jesus to come to peace and escape destruction, there are [...]

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Steven on September 21st, 2008

What awaits me after I die is the single mystery of life that I simply cannot understand until the moment when it occurs. I can imagine what it might be like to walk on the surface of the moon, or on the bottom of the ocean, even what it might be like to jump from [...]

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