Category Archives: 2024

Don’t be a wimp! (April 15, 2024)

Today we’re going to be restarting our “Life of a Warrior” series that we began last October. Over the past couple of years, we’ve been talking a lot about our identity as Christians, especially our identity as God’s children. But … Continue reading

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Don’t cram for the test (March 10, 2024)

I don’t know about you, but if there was one thing I always hated as a student, it was tests. But they were inevitable. I couldn’t avoid them. So as time went on, I had to learn how to better … Continue reading

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Change the script (February 24, 2024)

I’ve been an English teacher for over almost 30 years now in Japan. And if there’s one conversation I hope to never hear again, it’s, “How are you?” “I’m fine, thank you. And you?” I mean that conversation is only … Continue reading

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Fervent (February 4, 2024)

You know, family stories are always really interesting. How often do we look back at things that happened in our families and laugh about how stupid we all were. Being the youngest child in my family, it seems that there’s … Continue reading

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Heart of a child (January 14, 2024)

When I was growing up, I really didn’t know my father that well. For that matter, neither did my brother or sister. My dad wasn’t the most talkative of people, and we knew very little of his past. And so, … Continue reading

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