Encounters with God

Encounters with God

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May 2025

Journey of a New Christian
Introduction to a new series based on the questions newcomers to faith wrestle with.
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Unseen Reality
The painful record of my youthful folly, of a brash young man seduced by a poisonous ideology, has been transformed into a celebration of God's love and…
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2
Breaking with Communism
I listened in horror as he repeated what I’d said at the bar. Had my actual words sounded so harsh? So scornful? “Deceiving ourselves”—it felt like I’d…
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3
Forgiveness
I remember feeling an intense pang of emotion but not being able to put a name to it. Tears may have welled up in my eyes. I didn’t trust myself to…
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April 2025

Handiwork (part 2)
I felt a pang of sadness. Sophia was a beautiful name. Somebody long ago had been thrilled on the day she was born.
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Handiwork (part 1)
It had been years since Jim had last seen his father. He’d lived in foster homes since age 7. Since their last visit, he’d graduated from high school…
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Adopted Brother
It didn’t help that the Harmons were hard-core Baptists. In those days I hadn’t had a lot of experience with born-again Christians, but what I’d heard…
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Chastisement
God's chastisement: in what looked in my twenties like a string of bad luck I now see as a warning that my plan for my life was not His plan.
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Charles

March 2025

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