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 A passive approach to faith will not produce much. If we want to experience growth and spiritual health, we must put these three qualities in place.

                  Imagine a green square.   Have you done that?   Good!   Was your square dark green or light green?   Was it big or little?   Was the entire square green or just the outline?   Was your square two-dimensional or was it more like a cube?                 Any of those variations would qualify as a green square.   None are more correct than the others, they are just different ways of interpreting what a green square looks like.                 That simple exercise illustrates the challenge that Bible translators face.   They must take something that they understand in the original language and find a way to communicate that idea in English.   That is part of the reason that we have so many different versions of the Bible.   Truth can be stated in different ways.                 For example, in John 14:15, Jesus says that his fat

A message of hope

 Attitudes become actions. Therefore, change generally starts from the inside out. If you feel like you are not growing, here are two commonly held attitudes that need to change.  

                  When reading scripture, it is tempting to overlook the introduction to the various letters so that one gets to the body of the letter more quickly.   Much of the time, though, that is a mistake as the introduction often contains interesting words or phrases that set the tone for the rest of the letter.                 One such case is the introduction to the tiny letter of Jude.   It says, “Jude, a servant of Jesus Christ and a brother of James, to those who have been called, who are loved in God the Father and kept in Jesus Christ: Mercy, peace and love be yours in abundance” (verses 1-2).   While we could focus on several words here, I want us to think about two in particular; Called and Kept.                 Called means that God is offering us an invitation.   We are being called into the new life and new hope tha

 Many times, knowing when and where something was said is as important as knowing what was said. That is the case here.  

Happiness is not something that happens to us. It is an attitude that we choose.