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Rain
Forgiveness. It's a word that can bring to mind comfort or anxiety (or both) depending which side of the forgiving you're on. When life throws you unexpected obstacles and you take a wrong turn, the desire to be forgiven is natural and appropriate.
The guilt that a person naturally (and, usually, rightly) feels when they do something wrong is...
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Three Seconds
Three seconds. These three seconds represent a decision. The results of these few seconds can end up impacting many lives for years to come. Jesus often made decisions that angered those around him. He flaunted the religious zealots' perversions of the law by doing the "work" of healing on the Sabbath (John 9). He desecrated the self-proclaimed holiness...
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Not Evelyn Cho
When a delivery man shows up at her door with a package for Evelyn Cho, Sarah sees an opportunity. Could this mistake be the start of something good? Armed with a credit card and an internet connection Sarah decides that not being Evelyn Cho might be just the life she’s been looking for. But how far is too far and will she be okay when she realizes...
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The Knight's Tour
In chess, "The Knight's Tour" is an ancient puzzle that has challenged players for centuries. In this video, it represents a deeper battle that all of us face, the battle between our ideal selves, our actual selves, and the constant intrusion of those parts that we would prefer remained hidden.
No other human being knows you better than you know...
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Fly Away
Watch the Fly Away Prequel for a greater understanding of "Fly Away".
What do angels have to do with love? Why do love songs so often deal with flying, wings, leaping up towards the sky? Unlike other emotions, which are merely horizontal, love could be considered vertical: It reaches up as well as out. Although we can find contentment in horizontal...
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Eat, Pray, Love a Little
There’s been a lot of people finding inspiration from books this past year. In the wake of Julie and Julia there’s one woman making over a dress a day on a $1 budget, and another who’s committed to wearing one dress every day for a year. Not surprisingly, Elizabeth Gilbert’s best seller, and now major motion picture Eat, Pray, Love...
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Is Patriotism Lame?
I don't know what's been going on in your hometown lately, but here in Toronto Canada we had a weekend full of violent protests. Police cars set on fire, windows of shops smashed, and approximately 900 people arrested. All of this was due to the G20 summit, which cost billions of dollars, not including the collateral damage.
Unfortunately most...
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