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Our True Heritage

As Christians, our heritage is not found in the tangled branches of a “family tree”, but rather in the true vine of Christ Himself…

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If You’ve Left, Now is the Time to Return

There’s something Biblical about returning.

Not just to a place, but to a posture. Not to pretend nothing ever happened, but to come back to what we first loved, and find that we are wiser, even though wounded.

Many in midlife have wandered, willingly or not, from the structures and stories of our early faith. We’ve had hard losses and asked hard questions.

Some have quietly deconstructed.

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Wild Sage, by Sheila Atchley

Lately, I’ve been thinking about what it means to age well.

I am busy living, in real time, the truth that tells me that my God satisfies me with good things, and thus my youth is renewed “like the eagle”. (Ps. 103: 5)

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