Innocent Incest?

BP 107 Zach was an only child. He was born in northwestern North Dakota to a father who eked out a living on a hard scrabble farm and a mother…

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To Love is to Obey

BP106 This blog is a collection of random thoughts about how to be close to Jesus . . . Your faith in Jesus must go far beyond knowing the right…

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Dying to Get In

BP105 On a bright summer day, my wife and I drive four hours down to the small southwestern Minnesota town where I had attended middle school and high school. I…

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Darkness Sucks–Light Fills

BP104 This post is going to be concise and pointed. The single theme is that if Jesus is pumped out of our culture, some type of vacuum will be created.…

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Borderline Personality Disorder and Jesus

BP103 The most difficult part of living on this planet for John is relationships. People always (in his experience) disappoint him and eventually end up abandoning him. They are always…

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Pre-Evangelism: Birth of the True Self

BP 102 There is a great deal of unmapped country within us which would have to be taken into account in an explanation of our gusts and storms ~ George…

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WITH

BP101 I don’t know about you, but there are many words I use every day that I have never taken time to define. Unlike words like sesquipedalian or supercilious, I’ve…

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Giants in the World and in Your Heart

BP99 What is it about giants? They often appear as ogres and overall bad characters who haunt the nightmares of little boys and girls. I remember when my children were…

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