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25 “Therefore I tell you, do not be anxious about your life, what you will eat or what you will drink, nor about your body, what you will put on. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothing? 26 Look at the birds of the air: they neither sow nor reap nor gather into barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not of more value than they? 27 And which of you by being anxious can add a single hour to his span of life?[g] 28 And why are you anxious about clothing? Consider the lilies of the field, how they grow: they...

I have a confession. I love the Marvel movies. My wife reminds me regularly how sick she is of the different superhero movies. Me on the other hand, I probably would go see a Big Bertha movie (Google Ashley Crawford Marvel. I know you think I'm joking. Go do it and come back.).  One of the most iconic scenes is during Infinity War when Dr. Strange watches all of the possible outcomes related to their current conflict with Thanos. He views 14,000,605 possible futures. Before Dr. Strange begins to fade to dust, he looks at Tony Stark and says to him,...

Fishers of Men must empty themselves of our own will to accomplish the will of God. I remember a preacher telling a story about buying drinks at Sonic. I don't know if they still do this, but most Sonics do not give refills. So, my astute preacher had a workaround. He would ask for less ice. Because there was less ice in the cup to begin with, there was more room for his drink. In theological studies, there is often a discussion of Kenosis, a term that roughly means self-emptying. This is primarily used in reference to Jesus' action as...

There are a lot of things about you which we would consider to be true. Truth is one of the fundamental concepts to understand our world. We teach our children to always tell the truth even if it is hard. We are obligated to tell the “The truth, the whole truth, and nothing but the truth” before a courtroom. Pilate asked Jesus, “What is truth.” Truth is something that I believe is objective, but in some ways it is quantifiable. If you say the earth is round, that is true. If you say it is a sphere that is compressed...