After the Love is Gone

I have a thing for sad love songs. There, I said it. Sad love songs tend to provide insight into the nature of the human condition in ways that nothing else does. One of the saddest love songs ever written, in my opinion, is When Did You Stop Loving Me, When Did I Stop Loving …

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The Danger of Discontentment

In 1985, Prince and The Revolution released the critically-acclaimed album Around the World in a Day. The album included two top-10 singles: “Raspberry Beret,” which peaked at number two in the United States, and “Pop Life,” which reached number seven. Though the somewhat playful and whimsical Raspberry Beret was the album’s most successful single, the song Pop Life …

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The Battlefield of the Mind

If I were to ask you where Jesus ranks among your life's priorities, what would be your response? Would your first impulse be to give a "spiritual" answer? That is, would you be inclined to say what you think you're supposed to say as a Christian? Or would you respond with what you know in …

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