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Ben Gatton

Shine Your Light Brightly For All To See

Jesus once said to a large group of people gathered on a mountainside that they were the light of the world. Jesus’s words were...

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God is Love

Who or what is “God”? We all use a lot of different language to try to describe the Higher Power and Spiritual Reality that many of us...

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Kindness in the way of Jesus.

Over the last year I have seen more tshirts, bumper stickers, and signs that have some version of the phrase “be kind” on them. I usually...

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Choose Peace in the New Year

The word peace is one of those words that is incredibly common and can mean a lot of different things. In the Hebrew Scriptures, the word...

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Choosing Joy in the New Year

I'm not a huge fan of “inspirational” novelty items, but we do have one in our house. My wife has a yellow coffee mug that says “choose...

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Choosing Love in the New Year

So, 2020 has been a bummer for many people to say the least. For many more that word is far to breezy to describe the amount of grief and...

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Check out the Birds

Check out the birds Consider the ravens: They do not sow or reap, they have no storeroom or barn; yet God feeds them. And how much more...

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3 Questions to Consider Today

Be joyful in hope, patient in affliction, faithful in prayer. Share with the Lord’s people who are in need. Practice hospitality. Romans...