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Marilyn Paarlberg

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I Wish I Could Tell

Retirement comes in stages that begin, as I’m starting to understand, not with the last day of one’s job but the first. Two years ago,

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Discerning the Body

I had an experience early in 2017 that still comes back from time to time to poke my worldview, my fragile hold on “things church,”

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In the Meantime

Have you understood all this? They answered, “Yes.” Matthew 13:51 Note: This is the final segment in a July Sunday series of reflections on one

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Afterward I Knew

O LORD, you have searched me and known me. Psalm 139:1 Note: This is the third in a four-Sunday series of reflections on one or

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Of Dirt and Doubt

Listen! A sower went out to sow. (Matthew 13: 3) (Note: This is the second in a four-Sunday series of reflections on one or more

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Comparing the Generations

But to what will I compare this generation? (Matthew 11:16) I mistrust the lazy piety of unexamined biblical narratives and “Hallmark” religious poetry. A loaded

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Responses to Kent Van Til

David G. Myers, Ralph Blair, Marilyn Paarlberg In his forthcoming book No Condemnation! (Wipf Stock), Lutheran scholar Gary E. Gilthvedt observes that “there is nothing

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