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Romans 10:9
9that if you will confess with your mouth the Lord Jesus, and believe in your heart that God raised him from the dead, you will be saved.
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In the tradition of *lectio divina*, we do not merely read Scripture — we allow Scripture to read us. A monk once described his decades-long...
Teresa of Avila described the soul as a castle with many mansions, and at the very center, in the innermost room, Christ waits. Most of...
A friend of mine volunteers at a community kitchen in downtown Portland where the only rule posted on the wall reads: "Everyone eats." Not "everyone...
When Rachel Held Evans wrote about her journey back to faith, she described finding Jesus not at the end of a theological exam but at...
Around day twenty-one inside a chicken egg, something extraordinary happens. The chick — heart beating, lungs ready, feathers formed — faces the most critical moment...
In every CPR certification class, instructors drill the same lesson into their students: compressions alone are not enough. You press the chest — thirty rhythmic...
In 1923, a family in rural Kentucky discovered a deed to forty acres of prime timberland tucked inside the family Bible. The deed was legitimate,...
Marcus planted his boots at the lip of a sixty-foot sandstone cliff in Red River Gorge, Kentucky, rope threaded through his harness, hands white-knuckled on...
In 155 AD, the Roman proconsul gave Bishop Polycarp of Smyrna a simple way out. The elderly pastor, eighty-six years old, stood in a packed...
In 1960, Dr. Peter Safar demonstrated at Baltimore City Hospital that effective CPR requires two distinct actions working together. Chest compressions alone are not enough....
In the year 155 AD, the Roman proconsul in Smyrna dragged an elderly bishop named Polycarp into a packed arena. The crowd howled for blood....
On a warm Friday morning in a federal courthouse in Brooklyn, forty-seven people from twenty-three countries stood together and raised their right hands. Among them...
There is an old practice among the Desert Fathers and Mothers of praying with the breath itself. Not words arranged into petitions, not careful theological...
A paramedic in Nashville named David Chen once explained to a group of students why CPR works. "People think breathing is one action," he said,...
When Paul wrote "if you confess with your mouth that Jesus is Lord," he was not handing us a password to whisper at heaven's gate....