Why You Must Never Look at a Frog Flippantly

BP 150 C.S. Lewis unforgettably said Christians are like amphibians. Specifically, he said, “Humans are amphibians...half spirit and half animal...as spirits they belong to the eternal world, but as animals…

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The Child Inside

BP 149 Following are brief admissions of three children who are clothed with an adult on the outside. AMY: I am twenty-three on the outside. I am six on the…

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Firewalls Against Malware and Sin

BP 148 In the age before computers, the word “firewall” referred to a literal wall in a building designed to prevent the spread of a fire. Today, of course, we…

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Designed to be Chosen

BP 147 Sometimes I begin to write a post but back out of it because I do not feel confident about the content. This post fits that category, but I…

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Jesus Knows Your Abandonment

BP 145 Darkness, like a dusky ocean, boils over the horizon. Flooding across the blue vault at midday, it swallows up the fiery-orange warrior of the sky as if it…

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When Annihilation Descends on Your Soul

BP143 These are the words of a man named Nate (but they could very easily be the words of Aubrey as well)--when he became the target of the destroyer. I…

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Elephants in the Room

BP 142 Emily’s father began drinking one beer a night. He later graduated to two and then three. He didn’t get irritable or angry when he drank. Rather, he became…

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Oh Sinner, His Heart Yearns for You

BP 141 A brief post today for those who are weighed down by the condemnation and shame that accompanies sin . . . When you sin, would you rather stand…

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