Love God
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Photo by Moritz Schumacher on Unsplash It is Lent.  The season to remember our bondage. I remember my bondage.  Do you remember yours? The days were dark.  I was scared.  The shackles cut at my wrists.  Every day was back-breaking work, just trying to stay alive.  I thought I had no other choice, no way out. The future was bleak.  Possibly the worst part: no one (not even me) knew who I was because

Photo by Sam 🐷 on Unsplash Read:  Exodus 19:1-20:2; 20:18-21 Today is Ash Wednesday and the beginning of a 40-day season of repentance, renewal, and preparation we call "Lent."  During Lent we seek to deepen our understanding of our union with Christ by meditating and pondering His humility, suffering, and death.  It is a season where the magnifying glass enlarges the depths of our depravity and the completeness of God's love.  Just as Advent

Photo by Al Butler on Unsplash Read: Gen. 3:20-24 I am sure that I am not the only one who loved the Indiana Jones movies. Apparently, we are all about the movie references these past few weeks. Anyway, where it might have sparked the imagination of millions to find the “Lost Ark,” I was always (and still am) more fascinated by the idea of the lost Garden of Eden. I remember, as a child