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Something Good is Coming
Suffering is everywhere. People get cancer. Car wrecks accumulate. Miscarriages occur. Infants are stillborn. The mental health crisis is through the roof. Tragedy continues unabated, thanks to original sin. If we gaze at our surroundings, it’s easy to despair, to be distraught with the happenings of our world, to wonder if it will ever end.…
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Consider Supporting Me on Patreon
For all my life I was never one to enjoy writing. And yet, when the Lord saved me, he gave me the desire to read. The more I read, the more I felt the itch to write my own content. Here I am, and I’ve been writing seriously since 2018–now for five years! By God’s…
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Discipline and the Christian Life
I’m not really into New Year’s resolutions. I don’t think they’re silly, but for me, it’s easy to start one and then quit after a few weeks or a month. I’ve been there many, many times. And I’m sure you have, too — unless you’re more disciplined than the rest of the world. (And if…
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All Beauty Points to God
There are a plethora of things in life that cause us to be amazed, to wonder, to be in awe. Sunsets are glorious, waterfalls are beautiful, and though I’ve never been, I’m sure the Grand Canyon is spectacular. Creation is full of wonders that are bigger than us. But have we considered that all of…
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Reflections on Psalm 8
The night sky shines as I look up at it in my driveway. I marvel at its beauty. I’m astonished at how clear it is, and how many stars are visible. The stars I see are innumberable to count; then I glance at the moon. Amazed; struck; in a trance. I’ve always been fascinated that…
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We are Trinitarians
When I got my wisdom teeth out this year, an obligatory video was taken of me in my half-asleep state. Part of my problem was I didn’t remember saying half of it, but I do remember one thing. When I got into the car, my mom (she took me because my wife was at home…
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Finding Purpose in Your Vocation
In the 1 Corinthians 10:31, the Apostle Paul exhorts us to do all things to the glory of God: “So, whether you eat or drink, or whatever you do, do all to the glory of God” (1 Corinthians 10:31). The “whatever you do” in this verse is, as you’d imagine, is all-encompassing. It brings infinite…
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Peace of Mind
In April this year a tornado ripped through a town about 25 minutes away from where I live. It came in at such an angle that it would’ve gone directly over us if it stayed in tact. Thankfully, many tornadoes dissipate, or they go just north or south of where we reside. But when that…
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Year in Review (2024)
Friends, it has been another great year for my blog, Theology & Life! God has been gracious to bring more visitors to my site. Hopefully those people have been impacted for the better by my writing. This year my blog, as a whole, has received more views than ever before. Much of the traffic has…
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In Him
Our union with Christ is foundational to our lives as Christians. Truly, if we aren’t in Christ then we literally aren’t Christians. We live as Christians in union with Jesus, eternally connected with Him. There’s not a single area of the Christian life that is lived independently from union with Jesus. We wake up, work,…
Blake Long 