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"You're Not Yourself When You're Hungry"

Do you remember the Snickers ad campaign from a few years ago in which a character in the commercial, played by an...
Bob Turner
March 27, 2025
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The Lesson of the Furnace

Read Daniel 3:19–30 Nebuchadnezzar is a tyrant and, well, kind of a clod. It’s one of the dangerous side effects...
Bob Turner
March 20, 2025
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Defend the Orphan, Plead for the Widow

Earlier this week Secretary of State Marco Rubio announced that 83% of current contracts the US Agency for...
Bob Turner
March 13, 2025
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Sins of Omission

Read Leviticus 5:1–13 At our Ash Wednesday service last night, a large part of the liturgy was the confession of...
Bob Turner
March 6, 2025
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True Fasting

Read Isaiah 58:1–12 Lent is traditionally a time of fasting. It is a commemoration of the forty days Jesus spent...
Bob Turner
February 27, 2025
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Translation

The Bible was not written for us. Let me repeat that: the Bible was not written for us. This may be a hard, even a...
Bob Turner
February 20, 2025
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Honor, Shame, and Real Greatness

Read Luke 11:27–28 These verses from Luke 11 closely resemble another, perhaps more well-known, passage that...
Bob Turner
February 13, 2025
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Nourish Our Future

        On Tuesday evening I attended the launch of “Nourish Our Future,” Bread for the World’s new initiative to...
Bob Turner
February 6, 2025
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The Unhindered Gospel

Read Acts 19:1–10         The book is called the “Acts of the Apostles,” but it is really the Acts of the Holy...
Bob Turner
January 30, 2025
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The One and Only Gospel

        On Tuesday the newly minted president went to the National Cathedral for a worship service to round out the...
Bob Turner
January 23, 2025

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