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“… tongue is a small part of the body,  Read more…

“Why do you look at the speck of sawdust in your brother’s eye and pay no attention to the plank in your own eye? How can you say to your brother, ‘Let me take the speck out of your eye,’ when all the time there is a plank in your own eye?” (Matthew 7:3-4 NIV).

I couldn’t believe it.  Read more…

“All Scripture is God-breathed,” (2 Timothy 3:16 NIV).

“Let’s go scuba diving!” a friend exclaimed one hot summer day.

“That sounds great,” I said. “But I don’t know how.”

“Just leave it to me,” he said.

I was 17 when I decided to go scuba diving with some friends. I had no training and should not have been in deep water,  Read more…