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Devotionals

Walt Alexander’s series of devotional essays

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The thing that got me into horror movies was the writings of H.P. Lovecraft. His mythos is so disturbing yet so well written. For someone in his novels to cross a field is not just someone going from point A to point B. It is a journey from ignorance to

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I remember as a young adult that my youth pastor liked to shake his finger at me and repeat 1 Corinthians 10:13: No temptation has overtaken you except what is common to mankind. And God is faithful; he will not let you be tempted beyond what you can bear. But

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Well you know Reagan and Buckley and Bush and Bush Jr. , Carson and Pence and Trump and Trump Jr., but do you recall? The most evil conservative of all? Rudolph the Red-Nosed Reindeer, supposedly was one of society’s foes, and persecuting him is truly one of the left’s new

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Hey, its hip to view the world as dark, post-secular, meaningless, purposeless, and full of isolation! It is the sign of a true artist, right? And if you are good-looking or have money, you are not just a boorish, self-absorbed, pessimist. Girls think you are misunderstood and noble and they

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February of 2018 saw on of the most horrific events in our nation’s history, the shooting in Las Vegas. I know that there still people mourning the dead today. At that time many celebrities took to Twitter to share with us their great wisdom regarding how to fix the world,

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Unfortunately, I have been spending a lot of time on Match.com lately. I cannot give you stats but it SEEMS that a lot women are using the label of  Spiritual But Not Religious. So much so that I have been telling myself, ‘Almost all women are that way so I

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I was very intrigued by the trailers that were advertising The Last Jedi last year. It was a radical position for Luke Skywalker say, “The Jedi Order must end!” I started wondering where they were going with this. Then it hit me. The idea of the duality between the Light

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Friday, July 13th 2018, on the same day Mr. Trump was being mocked in London, Mike Pence came to Chicago to talk about the new tax law. I had always admired Mr. Pence and thought Mr. Trump choosing him as his Vice-President was a bold move considering how much controversy

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I have been been on a David Lynch movie bender lately. David Lynch is the director of such films as Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Blue Velvet and Eraserhead. The guy used to be a carpenter yet his films are so esoteric and metaphorical, yet he seems to be a strange

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I had fallen and I could not get up. I had fallen and I did not want to get up. But you ordered me up so I jumped up and grabbed you. I held on tight and I would not let go. (Was it wrestling or holding? I don’t know) 

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