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What More Do We Need?
Relationships Michael Riley 9/10/23 Relationships Michael Riley 9/10/23

What More Do We Need?

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How Do You Read the Bible?
Relationships Michael Riley 9/3/23 Relationships Michael Riley 9/3/23

How Do You Read the Bible?

Is the Bible a rulebook or a compass?

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How America Got Mean
Relationships Michael Riley 8/27/23 Relationships Michael Riley 8/27/23

How America Got Mean

Americans are terrible at moral formation.

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The Ultimate Question
Relationships Michael Riley 8/20/23 Relationships Michael Riley 8/20/23

The Ultimate Question

How will you answer it?

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Christianity without Christ?
Relationships Michael Riley 8/13/23 Relationships Michael Riley 8/13/23

Christianity without Christ?

How ridiculous the Jesus Way must appear to people who are trying to get ahead.

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True Heroes
Relationships Michael Riley 8/6/23 Relationships Michael Riley 8/6/23

True Heroes

We yearn for heroes.

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Hollow Victories
Relationships Michael Riley 7/30/23 Relationships Michael Riley 7/30/23

Hollow Victories

When it comes to Scripture, we are all beggars before God.

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When You Think You Know Jesus
Relationships Michael Riley 7/23/23 Relationships Michael Riley 7/23/23

When You Think You Know Jesus

I had been a spectator in the life of faith.

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Perilous Times
Relationships Michael Riley 7/16/23 Relationships Michael Riley 7/16/23

Perilous Times

The people’s privileged relationship with God also entails moral and ethical responsibilities.

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Do You Struggle with Keeping Your Balance?
Relationships Michael Riley 7/9/23 Relationships Michael Riley 7/9/23

Do You Struggle with Keeping Your Balance?

The Bible doesn’t always provide consistent answers to some of the more challenging problems of faith.

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 The Unrivaled Community
Relationships Michael Riley 7/2/23 Relationships Michael Riley 7/2/23

The Unrivaled Community

One aspect about religious institutions is universally missed--community.

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Are You Superstitious?
Relationships Michael Riley 6/25/23 Relationships Michael Riley 6/25/23

Are You Superstitious?

We can easily become swayed by superstitious beliefs that offer visible, touch-feely signs of the supernatural.

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Life’s Greatest Tragedy
Relationships Michael Riley 6/21/23 Relationships Michael Riley 6/21/23

Life’s Greatest Tragedy

I drew strength from his weakened and crippled body.

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For the Love of Money
Relationships Michael Riley 6/11/23 Relationships Michael Riley 6/11/23

For the Love of Money

College football has lost something invaluable.

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Are We Really Created Equal?
Relationships Michael Riley 6/4/23 Relationships Michael Riley 6/4/23

Are We Really Created Equal?

Some people have a decided advantage over others.

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All You Need Is Love?
Relationships Michael Riley 5/28/23 Relationships Michael Riley 5/28/23

All You Need Is Love?

Feelings of love must be coupled with understanding . . .

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Without Love, We Are only Making Noise
Relationships Michael Riley 5/21/23 Relationships Michael Riley 5/21/23

Without Love, We Are only Making Noise

Life is simply unfair.

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Heaven Is Other People!
Relationships Michael Riley 5/14/23 Relationships Michael Riley 5/14/23

Heaven Is Other People!

Loneliness Inflicts a Terrible Toll on Human Beings.

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We in the Shadow
Relationships Michael Riley 4/30/23 Relationships Michael Riley 4/30/23

We in the Shadow

How can we believe that God is involved in our daily lives when so often God appears deaf to our prayers and indifferent to our broken world?

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Why I’m not Leaving the Church
Relationships Michael Riley 4/23/23 Relationships Michael Riley 4/23/23

Why I’m not Leaving the Church

“The church needs reformation, not rejection.”

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